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“I'd rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of anybody.”

Liza Minnelli

Liza Minelli, interviewed by Gene Shalit in the September 1977 issue of The Ladies Home Journal, as quoted in &quot;Women in the News,&quot; https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yXMjAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=a2cEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=5851%2C3647577 in The Sarasota Herald-Tribune (August 24, 1977), p. 6-D <br class="br">Variant: But I&#x27;d rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of somebody else. <br class="br">Context: I don&#x27;t sing them because I couldn&#x27;t sing them as well as she did. I&#x27;d rather be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of anybody.

“I would rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.”

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Liza Minelli, as quoted in I Remember It Well (1975) by Vincente Minelli with Hector Arce, p. 395 https://books.google.com/books?id=D6jDtmiJCpkC&amp;q=minelli+%22second-rate%22+%22first-rate+version%22&amp;dq=minelli+%22second-rate%22+%22first-rate+version%22&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0CCoQ6AEwBGoVChMI0on3sqjdxgIVxHg-Ch1NhwVD; reprinted in &quot;Judy and Liza, Part 3&quot; https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CfpjAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=WuYDAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=7188%2C5401411 by Vincente Minelli, in The Sydney Herald (August 15, 1975), p. 8 <br class="br">Context: I couldn&#x27;t sing Mama&#x27;s special songs. I couldn&#x27;t do them as well. I would rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.

“Liza Minelli said she can't sing well enough those "special songs" of her late mother, Judy Garland, so she doesn't sing them at all. The award-winning entertainer said she'd "rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama."”

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As paraphrased and quoted in &quot;News Spotlight,&quot; https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=S8cxAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=PIYDAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=6062%2C6382171 The Kingsport Daily News (December 11, 1974), p. 9

“My mother once told me never be a second-rate version of somebody else when you can be a first-rate version of yourself.”

Liza Minnelli

&quot;[G]racefully handl[ing] audience demands for &#x27;Somewhere Over the Rainbow,&#x27;&quot; as quoted in &quot;Coy Minnelli wows spirited audience; UM announces MCA construction&quot; https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LQY1AAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=QE8KAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=3215%2C676019 by Alicia Amstead, in The Bangor Daily News (September 18, 2006), p. A10