Liberace Quotes

(Responding to a negative review of one of his performances): "Your review hurt me! I cried all the way to the bank!"

Too many young performers have forgotten that the most important part of show business is not the second word, it`s the first. Without the show there`s no business.

(From his 1973 autobiography): "Youthfulness, I guess, will always remain the thing that fans want to see in their favorite performers. They don`t like to see them grow old. Possibly because it reminds them that the same thing is happening to them."

(Spoken on stage): "I didn`t get dressed like this to go unnoticed."

(on playing Radio City Music Hall in the Easter show:) "You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can`t have both."

At the 1983 Academy Awards: "I made my greatest contribution to motion pictures years ago. I stopped making them."

Of course, I couldn`t go out in the street in clothes like this, I`d get picked up. Come to think of it, it might be fun.

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.