Liberace's Quotes

#1. Let's not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace's underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade.

Steve Toltz

#2. 'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.

Jerry Weintraub

#3. Men's clothes are becoming kind of mod. They're becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage.

Liberace

#4. I've done my bit for motion pictures-I've stopped making them.

Liberace

#5. Liberace was a lovely guy.

Michael Douglas

#6. I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, don't you? It's sad. I've lost more friends to AA than Liberace did to the virus. It's sad to see 'em go. You see a thirty day chip on your buddy's key ring, it's like seeing a toe tag on his cold, stiff corpse.

Doug Stanhope

#7. When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

Elton John

#8. When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.

Marilyn Manson

#9. I cried all the way to the bank.

Liberace

#10. Watch me, diamonds shining looking like I robbed Liberace.

Tupac Shakur

#11. I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's strictly a joke.

Liberace

#12. No other entertainer in the world ever took the risks that Liberace took.

Robin Leach

#13. My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

Liberace

#14. My grandmother, whom I adored, and who partly raised me, loved Liberace, and she watched Liberace every afternoon, and when she watched Liberace, she'd get dressed up and put on makeup because I think she thought if she could see Liberace, Liberace could see her.

Alan Furst

#15. I was born and raised during Depression Years when we were on County relief and we all went out and we hustled. we worked. I worked in a restaurant, I washed dishes.

Liberace

#16. Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows.

Scott Bakula

#17. When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

Liberace

#18. Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon.

Michael Douglas

#19. Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals.

Liberace

#20. Now, whatever you do, don't say anything, because no one must know that Liberace is gay."
"Excuse me?" I said. "I'm eight. I know he's gay.

Alison Arngrim

#21. LIBERACE!' Owen would have cried. 'WHO WOULD HAVE BELIEVED IT POSSIBLE? LIBERACE! KILLED BY WATERMELONS!

John Irving

#22. Liberace was Elton John and Lady Gaga before they even dreamed of it.

Jerry Weintraub

#23. I had to dare a little bit. Who am I kidding-I had to dare a lot. Dont wear one ring, wear five or six. People ask how I can play with all those rings, and I reply, Very well, thank you.

Liberace

#24. Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it.

Liberace

#25. I once was poor myself. I worked to get where I am today and I've worked hard to spend $100,000 a year on my clothes and I've worked hard to earn $3 million a year. I deserve what I get because I worked for it.

Liberace

#26. I don't give concerts, I put on a show.

Liberace

#27. I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

Usher

#28. People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.

Liberace

#29. Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

Liberace

#30. You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

Liberace

#31. With age comes wisdom. You don't need big boobs to be feminine. Look at Liberace.

Joan Rivers

#32. If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools.

Liberace

#33. First of all, Jericho ... Liberace called and said he wants his pajamas back!

Triple H

#34. 'Behind The Candelabra' is an HBO movie. It's the Liberace story. Michael Douglass and Matt Damon. I play a small part in it. I play a choreographer who introduces, brings Matt Damon to Las Vegas for the first time.

Scott Bakula

#35. If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.

Robin Leach

#36. You know that bank I used to cry all the way to? I bought it.

Liberace

#37. I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician.

Liberace

#38. Have you found your Christmas spirit yet? he asked as they drove by Broslin Square.
The decorations were out of control. "This place would make Liberace feel underdressed.

Dana Marton

#39. Why don't I just step out and slip into something more spectacular?

Liberace

#40. What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.

Liberace

#41. I have an eye for new and refreshing talent,

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#42. I'm Liberace without a piano.

Paul Lynde

#43. The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who didn't come from much. His father left him and his family for another woman. His father was a musician, which I thought was pretty interesting.

Richard LaGravenese