Lorna Luft Quotes

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage after the first concert to meet the Beatles in person. I had a huge crush on George Harrison at the time, having inherited my family's passion for skinny musicians, and I was simply awestruck to be meeting the Fab Four in person.

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.

I was born in a blender.

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.

My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.

My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American

I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.

A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.

The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.

I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.

In June 1968, five days before my mother's forty -sixth birthday, the world fell apart again. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy, who died the next day. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make

I understand wanting to do your craft. I understand wanting to have a passion for your art and for your ability to be an actor, to be a singer, to be a dancer - that I understand. Wanting to be famous - I don't get that. But that's where we're living right now.

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

I'm extraordinarily honored and proud when I am told that I am part of the Broadway community and part of the Broadway family. Because, Broadway is a family. And it doesn't matter if you did one show or if you did fifty shows.

I think that when you're in your twenties you think about your future, when you're in your thirties you're raising kids and you think about their future, but when you get to a time when you are diagnosed with any kind of life altering illness, what did you take away from it? And what I took away from it was how to live in the "now".

The Broadway community is unlike any community in show business and it is unlike any community in the world. When you come into the Broadway community they open the door and they say "welcome". Not only do they do that, but when times are really tough and horrendous things have happened and really tragic things - the Broadway community shows up! And they say "how can we help?".

I think every show I do, whether I am doing eight shows a week of a Broadway show... I think, "that's a show I'll never get back"... I go home at night and I think to myself, "that was my favorite".

I really don't look at my past and I really don't look too much to the future because I find that's sort of redundant. I really live right in the present. I live right in the now.

I did my first Broadway show when I was nineteen years old - and to be able to say that I am still working with the incredible talents of all of the creative teams that I have been able to work with - that's so special to me.