"I'm not a drama queen. I'm not attracted to pain. I don't go toward it."

"I don't have a life if I'm not in front of an audience. I need to perform."

"I find that gay people relate to women like me because I'm sensitive like they are. I describe what they are going through."

"Listen, I came out of the womb and somebody slapped me on the ass and I've been in the public ever since. I've never even had the luxury of being able to hide anything."

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

"I'll never get mad. I'll chew Valium rather than throw a scene."

"After school, other kids went to the playground. I went to MGM."

"I've always found a way to look after myself and I always will."

"If my mother gave me weaknesses, she also gave me strength."

"I fight to be Liza Minnelli on-stage and off-stage."

"What's important is to stand out there with your legs planted apart and sing, dammit."

"I've always been married, or going with someone."

"Love needs to be tempered by good sense or it quickly becomes obsessive."

"I'm the healthiest person you will ever meet, I always have been. I'm just an ox."

"Momma used to make shepherd's pie and the kitchen would look like Armageddon for a week afterwards."

"I feel there is no shame in taking positive action."

"Other people have been icons.  I just get up there and sing and dance."

"I've always hung my ass out on the line, just waved it in the breeze waiting for someone to take me apart."

"You can't kill a good song. It goes on forever."

"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."

"I don't project any more. Projection can kill. It's where all your fear comes in."

"Manhattan is my spiritual home, where I feel my vibe. Los Angeles is home in the sense of where I come from."

"I have sometimes been an emotional Chernobyl."

"Living as a legend, as the daughter of legends, is confusing."

 

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