Liza Minnelli

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

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

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

— Liza Minnelli

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

— Liza Minnelli

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

— Liza Minnelli

Liza Minelli said she can't sing well enough those "special songs" of her late mother, Judy Garland, so she doesn't sing them at all. The award-winning entertainer said she'd "rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama."

— 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

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

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

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

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

— Liza Minnelli

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

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

He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time.

— Liza Minnelli

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

— Liza Minnelli