Lorna Luft Quotes

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

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

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

A star needs all the rest she can get.

Maybe people don't know I'm a news junkie? I watch and I tape a breadth of everything that's happening in the world, and that fascinates me.

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

Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

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

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

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

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.

I guess the only way I could describe myself is someone that lives right in the present.

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?".

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

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.

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

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

There's so much, I guess I want to say, nonsense about show business now. Because of reality television. I don't get this, because I was never raised to get this, but I don't understand wanting to be famous. Maybe it's because I was born famous, but I don't get it.

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.

My feeling about young people who want to pursue a career is - the first thing is do your homework on where it all started. Go back and look at history. Look at why the shows you are loving today happened and the artists you are listening to happened. And do your homework on history. Whether it's musical movies, musical plays, Broadway musical recordings - do your homework! And then, that way you will have an understanding of why, now, certain movies, certain plays, certain musicals are making some sort of sense.

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

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

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.

A piece of advice I would give to young actors - hang on to your family, and hang on to your reality - and hang on to your "real". Because you're going into the land of make believe.

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

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.

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

When you're in show business no matter what you're doing it's an insecure business.

I was born in a blender.

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

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?

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.

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

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".

Every time I go out on a stage I consider myself very lucky. Because, in a time where people are economically thinking about what to go and see - so, when I am on a stage, and it doesn't matter where I am, that's my favorite show. I come home after and say "That was my favorite show".

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

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

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.

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