Liza Minnelli Quotes

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My mother once told me never be a second-rate version of somebody else when you can be a first-rate version of yourself.

Liza Minnelli
I'm carrying on a tradition. But I'd rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of somebody else. I'm proud of my parents, and the only way that I can prove it to them is to take what they gave me and work my head off.

Liza Minnelli
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
On having false hips and a wired-up knee:
I'm Dorothy's daughter up top and the Tin Man down below.

Liza Minnelli
Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli
They used to have clauses and contracts where you can't get bad publicity or you'd get fired. But now bad publicity is good publicity. I just keep working and don't think about it much.

Liza Minnelli
I couldn't sing Mama's special songs. I couldn't do them as well. I would rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.

Liza Minnelli
I don't sing them because I couldn't sing them as well as she did. I'd rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of anybody.

Liza Minnelli
In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, "Did he leave a will?" but "Did he leave a diary?"

Liza Minnelli
A TV producer once asked me to sing one of her songs. So I asked her advice. "Don't be ridiculous, Liza," she said. "Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of somebody else."

Liza Minnelli
If I give you romantic advice, don't take it. Look what's happening to me. I have the best taste in friends and the worst taste in husbands. I'm never getting married again. That's just stupid. There's no reason on Earth to do that.

Liza Minnelli
Money makes the world go round
the world go round
the world go round,
Money makes the world go round
That clinking clanking sound!

Liza Minnelli
It really scared me to do what Mom did because I never did anything that she did. I promised her that I would never sing her songs, and I kept my promise. "You sing them better than anybody. I don't want to be a second-rate example of you. I want to be a first-rate example of myself."

Liza Minnelli