1. The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role. 2. I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.
3. To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
5. Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.
7. I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.
9. So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.
11. I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.
12. I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.
14. (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!"
16. 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.
17. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.
19. Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.
20. He's a good tough producer, yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened.
22. My family's been in show business since the 1700s. I traced them. I'm bred to this. Like a racehorse. A thoroughbred. Look at my parents, my God. But it was my curiosity that made me do this. Because you could also say: "Look at Frank Sinatra Jr." It's not like a natural thing that happens. You gotta work.
24. I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.
25. Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.
27. 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.
28. It's a waste of time to think about what I should have done and what I didn't. I really believe in that. That's how I react to the if-onlys of life. To moan and groan about something I shouldn't have done, could have done, might have done...who knows? It is what it is. You got what you got. I live my life one day at a time.
30. 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.
32. (on Judy Garland) She 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.
34. Ben Vereen is going to be on the show with me, too.
35. But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there.
37. The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
38. Reality is something you rise above.
40. I remember playing in the Beverly Hills park with Mia Farrow and Candy (Candice Bergen) and Tisha Sterling and, while we sat in the sandbox, we could hear our English nannies talking about picture deals and costume direction and whose employer was going to win the Academy Award.
41. But God really did bless me, you know? He really said: "All right. Come on. I'm still waiting for you. Get over here. Get over here."
43. What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.
44. In Hollywood now when people die they don't say: "Did he leave a will?" but "Did he leave a diary?"
46. No, I mean, I most certainly date and go out.
47. Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.
48. I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.
50. 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.
51. You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.
52. You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.
54. No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.
55. There are so many girls and so few princes.
56. And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me.
58. I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.
59. Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.
60. Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that.
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