Top 100 Liza Quotes
#2. I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back ... it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and grateful. You're busy. You don't have time to be unhappy. My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn.
Liza Minnelli
#3. I'm not a politician or a political expert, but I believe that there are many ways to look at peace.
Liza Donnelly
#4. He's a good tough producer, yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened.
Liza Minnelli
#5. I can feel you
staring at me," he said in the softest wake-up voice I'd ever heard. "I only
hope you're a girl and not one of the drunken guys.
Piper Shelly
#7. I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.
Gene Simmons
#8. Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.
Liza Minnelli
#9. Mixing defensiveness with anger - a wonderful mix, by the way.
Liza Palmer
#10. I came out of the womb looking for the camera angle
Liza Minnelli
#11. It's one thing to run from ghosts, it's quite another to let them catch you.
Liza Palmer
#12. I will personally never ever get over the communal experience of theatrical cinema. I will never get over the scale of a big screen in relation to your small body, big sounds in a big room with a bunch of other people.
Liza Johnson
#13. Men are just as willing as women to marry up, and life is now giving them the opportunity ... So, women, own up to your accomplishments, buy him a drink, and tell him what you really do.
Liza Mundy
#14. Half the time, I feel like I'm 12. And the rest of the time, I feel like I'm 80. So I guess I'm somewhere in between. No, I feel great. I've got my health, and that's the most important thing.
Liza Minnelli
#15. Funny how you can get used to not having things you thought you couldn't live without.
Liza Palmer
#16. The thing that has helped me the most has been surrounding myself with a strong community of people with common interests and relevant knowledge - other directors, artists, crew talent, and smart and fun people in other fields.
Liza Johnson
#17. The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had a lot to do with being based in northwest Arkansas.
Liza Featherstone
#18. Wal-Mart workers make just over $8 an hour, and they must pay more than a third of their health insurance premium if they choose to take the company's insurance. That means just about half of them don't choose to take the health insurance because they can't afford it.
Liza Featherstone
#19. Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.
Liza Minnelli
#20. People with romantic illusions find it hard to make a living.
Liza Cody
#21. [ ... ] love is not reasonable or measured. It undoes you. It's in the imperfections in each other, in ourselves, where we find our humanity. It's in our dents and scars where the deepest connections are made. Real love resides in the parts of me I think no one wants to see.
Liza Palmer
#22. I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
David Johansen
#23. Both Erica and Liza Wind were morbidly concerned with heredity, and instead of delighting in Victor's artistic genius, they used to worry gloomily about its genetic cause.
Vladimir Nabokov
#24. Liza with her acceptance could take care of tragedy; she had no real hope this side of Heaven.
John Steinbeck
#25. It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia
"Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza
"No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia
Jennifer Crusie
#26. It's through neglecting all other values to bring the customer the lowest price that Wal-Mart ended up with such a horrible sex discrimination problem, but that model produces lots and lots of other problems as well, which I think are possibly going to be more difficult to fix.
Liza Featherstone
#27. Music licensing is a strange business to navigate, and all kinds of little things can drive a price up or down. It's completely fluid, it constantly changes, and there's no list of prices on a menu. Everything is negotiable in every way.
Liza Richardson
#28. I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.
Liza Minnelli
#29. I thought that making movies was drab. I'd lived through that. And I didn't want to use my parents, ever ... They didn't want to push me into this business.
Liza Minnelli
#30. I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
Zooey Deschanel
#31. When we respect our humanity, we can embrace our diversity.
Liza M. Wiemer
#32. There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.
Mark Steyn
#34. You see, I could no longer be trusted around beautiful things and my weakness was apparent
Liza Ward
#35. What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.
Liza Minnelli
#36. I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.
Hugh Jackman
#37. Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.
Liza Minnelli
#38. No, but Liza took went and took away from me, possibly my livelihood.
David Gest
#39. Once you taste a little of the sweetness that life can be, there really is no going back.
Liza Palmer
#40. That was the trouble with lies: it was very important to remember them accurately when, generally, they were the things you most wanted to forget.
Liza Cody
#41. You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.
Kate Morton
#42. The only street I like is Rue Honore de Balzac, because 'Balzac' sound so gay, and I love my gays. I might like Parisians more if they named their streets only for gay icons, like Rue Liza Minnelli or Rue Bette Midler or, my favorite, Rue McClanahan.
Joan Rivers
#44. It's like being an athlete; you get into a certain shape where you really have the right wind, because it's all to do with breath. Because singing and dancing at the same time is not easy!
Liza Minnelli
#45. 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
#46. I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too? - Emerson
Liza M. Wiemer
#47. But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through.
Liza Minnelli
#48. I'm okay...in that kind of dead inside way
Liza Palmer
#49. I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza Richardson puts together, like Washed Out and Cults, but my favorite band is Bootstraps.
Shelley Hennig
#50. I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it.
Liza Minnelli
#51. I was sitting on my mom's lap across from my father to see Kay Thompson at Ciro's. And I always remember this energy force, this woman flying around the room and singing these harmonies so everyone went, 'Wow!' So I thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
Liza Minnelli
#52. 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
#53. There is more good than bad. Life and love win if you let them. If you believe in them.
Liza Palmer
#54. One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative.
Liza Donnelly
#55. You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.
Liza Minnelli
#56. 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
#57. While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market.
Liza Mundy
#58. 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
#59. I think, How small my life seemed then. How little I wanted for myself. How little I expected of myself and those who claimed to love me.
Liza Palmer
#60. No more pep talks about believing in toads," Liza said.
"Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?" Bonnie said.
"Thats frogs," Liza Said. "Entirely different species.
Jennifer Crusie
#61. For a moment the mole let his disappointment show on his snout. Then he grunted, "You're much smarter than you smell." Liza let out a whoop of satisfaction and chose not to worry too much about what stupidity smelled like.
Lauren Oliver
#62. Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.
Liza Minnelli
#63. 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
#64. I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.
Liza Minnelli
#65. The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
Liza Minnelli
#66. Maybe they're customers. (Simone)
For a doll store? Yes, I can just see them now ... I'll take the frilly pink baby doll. (Liza)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#67. The Lord in his wisdom gave money to very curious people, perhaps because they'd starve without. -Liza
John Steinbeck
#68. I know that it's common for creative people to feel like they're profoundly misunderstood but for the most part I don't feel like that. I think most of the time people read my work in the way I intend.
Liza Johnson
#69. Some days you're Superman, some days you're Clark Kent.
Liza Palmer
#70. I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.
Liza Minnelli
#71. First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw 'Bye, Bye Birdie,' and everything changed. I'm glad I learned through the process of theater.
Liza Minnelli
#72. Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that.
Liza Minnelli
#73. On daughter Liza Minnelli: I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.
Judy Garland
#74. Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.
Liza Minnelli
#75. It was actually an Israeli cartoonist, Nurit Karlin, who made me think that I could draw for 'The New Yorker.' I saw her work published in the magazine in the early 1970s - she was the only woman working as a cartoonist at 'The New Yorker' at the time.
Liza Donnelly
#76. Liza considering back-peddling but thought about her empty bank account. "That'll be fine, sir. I don't wear skirts anyway."
He hmphed as though he suspected she might also be inclined to burn her bra on the courthouse steps and snapped, "No jeans either, this is a professional establishment.
Gwenn Wright
#77. Humor relies on the traditions of a society. It takes what we know and it twists it ... Because women are on the ground floor, and we know the traditions so well, we can bring a different voice to the table.
Liza Donnelly
#78. Change doesn't happen just because we think something is wrong. Change happens because we think something is wrong and then don't stop fighting until it's right.
Liza Palmer
#79. The thing is, is to raise your hand. It's not to hide, and it's not to try and pretend or do anything like that. You raise your hand, that's the best thing about it.
Liza Minnelli
#80. Winter makes me want to rage. You know how there's road rage? I feel like in New York or upstate New York, you're just like, 'Dammit,' because you're so cold.
Liza Lapira
#81. I loved to dance and went to Studio 54 at least twice a week. But I always felt nervous around the people there. I was in awe of that whole Halston-Liza Minnelli crowd. To me, they were the real celebrities, and I was just a girl from Idaho.
Margaux Hemingway
#82. All at once it occurs to me that I'm the one who needs to give myself the break, to accept myself for who I am.
Liza M. Wiemer
#83. Liza-don't let it make any difference. It won't, will it? With us, I mean."
"Of course it won't," I told her.
But I was wrong. Six months of not writing-that's a difference.
And so I lied to Annie. On top of everything else, I lied to Annie, too.
Nancy Garden
#84. You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don't change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face." "Have you thought of the two little boys, Liza?" he asked. "I've thought of your
John Steinbeck
#85. I had no interest in filming. I sometimes went to the studios with my dad, but it was slow-going; it was boring to watch. I always ended up in the rehearsal hall watching the dancing. That's what I liked to do.
Liza Minnelli
#86. 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
#87. Ben Vereen is going to be on the show with me, too.
Liza Minnelli
#89. I'm lost. I'm alone. I've got nowhere to go. Nowhere but home.
Liza Palmer
#90. Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#91. I just want to make sure Mama. Sometimes I don't even know what I want. A lot of times I'm just tired."
Mama reached up and smoothed Liza's curls away from her face. "Well darlin', that's the sign of a life being lived. I think we're all tired when we're giving it our best.
Gwenn Wright
#92. I have always noticed that people only think you are stupid if you do things differently from them.
Liza Cody
#93. I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.
Liza Minnelli
#94. When I was really young, I was reluctant to be perceived as bossy, and I thought that working with an ensemble was about generating a consensus all the time. Later on, I realized that it's actually generous to know what you want and to tell people what you want - actors, crew, everyone.
Liza Johnson
#95. 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
#96. Often people will ask me why a song was chosen and I don't always have a good answer for it. You try ideas and something works or sounds really cool. Sometimes songs are on the nose and sometimes they're more mysterious.
Liza Richardson
#97. I'm so grateful for everything that's happened. I love my work. People have such hurdles - I just wanted to perform, and I wanted my parents to be proud, and they were proud.
Liza Minnelli
#98. Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
Lorna Luft
#99. For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.
Liza M. Wiemer
#100. We all fall in love with the idea of a person, and then as time goes on we either accommodate ourselves to the real person or we don't.
Liza Johnson
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