Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

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.

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

[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."

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

[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."

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.

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