“Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw ...” — Liza Minnelli Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When I was growing up, I had a nanny who would always play 'The Sound of Music' and 'Bye Bye Birdie,' so I was always listening to that stuff.”

“We didn't name Birdie before she was born. When she came out I said, 'I think we gotta go with Birdie, I think that's her name.'”

“We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'”