Marriage Quote by Liza Minnelli

Minnelli’s voice here is doing two things at once: defending herself and reminding you why she still matters. The repetition - "always, always cherish" - isn’t just sentimentality; it’s a performer’s instinct to land an emotional beat hard enough that no one can talk over it. In a celebrity culture that treats weddings like content and collapses private life into public property, she reframes the event as proof of audience intimacy, not tabloid spectacle.

The key pivot is "the people". She doesn’t say friends, family, or guests. She says "the people" the way a Broadway veteran says "the house": a collective with power, judgment, and, crucially, loyalty. When she adds, "and that’s who I entertain", she’s drawing a bright line between herself and the gatekeepers who usually narrate fame - critics, industry insiders, gossip columns. The wedding becomes a referendum, and she insists the voters were kind.

There’s subtextual steel under the gratitude. "Like I'd never seen" carries a faint astonishment, even relief, implying a life lived under scrutiny where warmth can feel like an exception. Then she lands the credo: "I entertain the people". It’s almost defiant in its simplicity, a classic Minnelli move - showbiz as calling, not branding. She’s not asking to be understood so much as insisting on the terms of her relationship with the public: you can watch, you can judge, but you can’t rewrite what the applause meant.