Top 50 Liza Minnelli Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.”

— Liza Minnelli

2. “Reality is something you rise above.”

— Liza Minnelli

3. “Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that.”

— Liza Minnelli

4. “Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream.”

— Liza Minnelli

5. “Don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream.”

— Liza Minnelli

6. “I’ve said it before, but it’s absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.”

— Liza Minnelli

7. “Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.”

— Liza Minnelli

8. “She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.”

— Liza Minnelli

9. “Never stop moving, or you’ll stop moving. I go to dance class every morning, and it’s just good to stay strong; I like being healthy.”

— Liza Minnelli

10. “I rely on regular chiropractic care to keep in shape for my strenuous type of acting and singing.”

— Liza Minnelli

11. “I feel like I haven’t done my best work yet. I feel like there’s a world of possibilities out there.”

— Liza Minnelli

12. “I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.”

— Liza Minnelli

13. “But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there.”

— Liza Minnelli

14. “There are so many girls, and so few princes.”

— Liza Minnelli

15. “Bleeding feet will bond us.”

— Liza Minnelli

16. “Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.”

— Liza Minnelli

17. “I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they’ve been through hell on Earth.”

— Liza Minnelli

18. “I have two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and scoliosis. If I don’t dance, I seize up.”

— Liza Minnelli

19. “What good is sitting all alone in your room?”

— Liza Minnelli

20. “I came out of the womb looking for the camera angle.”

— Liza Minnelli

21. “It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland’s daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years – except they had little to do with being a child.”

— Liza Minnelli

22. “Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for – in other words, cheered on – by people who feel different.”

— Liza Minnelli

23. “Well, I’ll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I’d never seen from the people, and that’s who I entertain. I entertain the people.”

— Liza Minnelli

24. “You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.”

— Liza Minnelli

25. “I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.”

— Liza Minnelli

26. “I’ve decided that I am totally against jewelry. So I have all fake. There’s no reason to have real diamonds. People think it’s real anyway.”

— Liza Minnelli

27. “I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.”

— Liza Minnelli

28. “Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it – I wanted to be on Broadway.”

— Liza Minnelli

29. “I’m not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I’ve been through enough to do it right.”

— Liza Minnelli

30. “You don’t know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk.”

— Liza Minnelli

31. “If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.”

— Liza Minnelli

32. “I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move-that’s the actor informing the dancer. So I worked on my acting and gradually developed a singing voice.”

— Liza Minnelli

33. “Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they’ll respond.”

— Liza Minnelli

34. “But God really did bless me, you know? He really said, All right. Come on. I’m still waiting for you. Get over here. Get over here.”

— Liza Minnelli

35. “I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.”

— Liza Minnelli

36. “Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.”

— Liza Minnelli

37. “I’ve got a good life, and I don’t think anything can rock that anymore.”

— Liza Minnelli

38. “Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.”

— Liza Minnelli

39. “And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one – that’s the most exciting time for me.”

— Liza Minnelli

40. “Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV – nobody’s parents were like that.”

— Liza Minnelli

41. “I know that. I’m having a ball. I’m not slap happy. I’m just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they’re back and they’re thriving.”

— Liza Minnelli

42. “In Hollywood now when people die they don’t say, ‘Did he leave a will?’ but ‘Did he leave a diary?’”

— Liza Minnelli

43. “I’m fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything’s cooking.”

— Liza Minnelli

44. “Well, we have theatrical parties. It’s not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.”

— Liza Minnelli

45. “What I’m saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.”

— Liza Minnelli

46. “My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.”

— Liza Minnelli

47. “Ben Vereen is going to be on the show with me, too.”

— Liza Minnelli

48. “You see, that’s another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.”

— Liza Minnelli

49. “I worked very hard, but I think it’s unfair to make it all sound like it’s all David’s fault.”

— Liza Minnelli

50. “The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.”

— Liza Minnelli