Top 100 Quotes About Minnelli
#1. I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
David Johansen
#2. There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.
Mark Steyn
#3. 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
#4. Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
Damien Chazelle
#5. On daughter Liza Minnelli: I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.
Judy Garland
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Why didn't you tell me?" Vera looked cautious. "Tell you what? I said he was talented.""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. An ejaculation of truth.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#9. I love visual stylists like Bob Fosse and Vincente Minnelli and Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger with The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#10. Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the rolled-down stockings. They sort of referenced that in 'Cabaret,' when Liza Minnelli was singing 'Mein Herr,' and I love the way she looks in that scene.
Amy Heckerling
#11. It wasn't Liza Minnelli. It was the woman I loved.
David Gest
#12. I've basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I'm dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me.
Gillian Flynn
#13. I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.'
Peter Berg
#14. But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there.
Liza Minnelli
#15. The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.
Vincente Minnelli
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#23. I came out of the womb looking for the camera angle
Liza Minnelli
#24. But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.
Vincente Minnelli
#25. 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
#26. I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
Vincente Minnelli
#27. Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.
Liza Minnelli
#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. What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.
Liza Minnelli
#31. Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.
Liza Minnelli
#32. Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
Vincente Minnelli
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through.
Liza Minnelli
#39. Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.
Vincente Minnelli
#40. I created "Bouquets In Fantasia" when I was strictly painting in the genre of "Fantasy Flower Art".
Minnelli Lucy France
#41. That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.
Vincente Minnelli
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.
Vincente Minnelli
#46. You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.
Liza Minnelli
#48. 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
#50. 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
#51. Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.
Liza Minnelli
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
Liza Minnelli
#55. I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.
Liza Minnelli
#56. 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
#57. Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that.
Liza Minnelli
#58. In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.
Vincente Minnelli
#59. Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.
Liza Minnelli
#61. 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
#62. I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They're things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate.
Vincente Minnelli
#63. 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
#64. Sometimes I defy flower anatomy & other times I try and replicate it intricately!
Minnelli Lucy France
#65. 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
#66. Ben Vereen is going to be on the show with me, too.
Liza Minnelli
#68. I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.
Liza Minnelli
#70. 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
#71. But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.
Vincente Minnelli
#72. 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
#75. American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
Vincente Minnelli
#78. 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
#79. The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.
Liza Minnelli
#80. I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'
Liza Minnelli
#82. Working with Dudley Moore was so hilarious. I don't know how we got anything done because everybody was laughing so hard, but he was such a wonderful man, and he had a kindness and a musicality and a dearness to him that was triumphant.
Liza Minnelli
#83. 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
#84. If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.
Vincente Minnelli
#85. (in the film "That's Entertainment!" - 1974) Thank God for film, it can capture a moment and hold it there forever. If anyone ever asks you: "Who were they?" or "What made them so good?" I think a reel of film answers that question.
Liza Minnelli
#86. I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
Vincente Minnelli
#87. 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
#88. You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.
Liza Minnelli
#89. I've got a good life, and I don't think anything can rock that anymore.
Liza Minnelli
#90. I had the drink after I fell out of bed. It hurt.
Liza Minnelli
#91. 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
#92. I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.
Liza Minnelli
#93. I rely on regular chiropractic care to keep in shape for my strenuous type of acting and singing.
Liza Minnelli
#94. 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
#96. 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
#97. No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.
Liza Minnelli
#98. I adore the elegance of botanical realism but I also can't help but dream of my very own neo-surrealistic fantasy flowers, and so I paint and illustrate both; I always find myself between both of those worlds.
Minnelli Lucy France
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