When you understand what it is that she was able to overcome in order to continue to deliver and continue to perform for her audiences, and connect with people and move them in the way that she did, is to then really understand how extraordinary she was.

Liza Minnelli

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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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

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Don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream

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(on Marilyn Monroe) I was walking down Broadway with her and nobody was stopping us. She was going to (Stella Adler's) actors' studio, and she was taking me to show me what it was all about. And I said to her: "How come nobody is taking your picture?" She said: "Well, watch." She took her scarf off, straightened her shoulders, and draped something another way, and we were surrounded. It must have been 400 people. And I said: "Now I know why!"

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The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

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I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.

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You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.

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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.

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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.

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She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

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I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.

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She (Judy Garland) was a friend of mine, a trying friend, but a friend. That is what I tell myself: She did everything she ever wanted to do. She never really denied herself anything for me. See, I say, she had a wonderful life; she did what she wanted to do. And I have no right to change her fulfillment into my misery. I'm on my own broom now.

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I came out of the womb looking for the camera angle

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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.

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It was like Mama suddenly realized I was good, that she didn't have to apologize for me. It was the strangest feeling. One minute I was on stage with my mother, the next moment I was on stage with Judy Garland. One minute she smiled at me, and the next minute she was like the lioness that owned the stage and suddenly found somebody invading her territory. The killer instinct of a performer had come out in her.

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

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I have two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and scoliosis. If I don't dance, I seize up.

Liza Minnelli

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My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

Liza Minnelli

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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.

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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

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