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 Minelli, as quoted in I Remember It Well (1975) by Vincente Minelli with Hector Arce, p. 395; reprinted in "Judy and Liza, Part 3" by Vincente Minelli, in The Sydney Herald (August 15, 1975), p. 8