Liza Minnelli is aging gracefully and now she’s sharing some advice.
In a rare conversation for Interviewmagazine, the 78-year-old stressed the importance of prioritizing your physical wellbeing.
“I have one piece of advice: Take care of your body ’cause you might live longer than you expect to,” the EGOT winner said. “I just keep replacing parts and moving forward. You just deal with it and be happy, and as Dick Van Dyke sang and taught to me, ‘Put on a Happy Face.’ ”
Additionally in the cover story, Minnelli — the daughter of Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli — shared that there are a lot of misconceptions people have about her and her life.
“They read trash and tripe and don’t know that my life is really beautiful,” she admitted. “It’s filled with loved ones, laughter, creativity, and emotional as well as financial safety. People weaponize crazy stories, it’s a friggin’ bore. I don’t think people understand what a close family we are.”
“Sometimes it hurt my feelings, but your job as an artist is to not listen to them and do what you do, which they can’t do,” she added.
That attitude is, in part, what she wants to be remembered for.
“I made my own lane,” she told the outlet. “I worked and still work as hard as anyone can, and I love each person who supported me and cares about me for me. I love performing. I still take dance lessons, and when I sing to people in the theater, I’m not giving a performance — I’m sharing my love with each individual person. I’m asking, ‘This is how I feel. How ’bout you?’ My work is real.”
