Lorna Luft Quotes

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

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

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

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".

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

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.

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

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

Dinah had all the class.

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

I don't like to hear anybody in show business complain, because I just find it to be such a grateful business. Because there are so many wonderful, creative souls out there and there are so few jobs. And, so, I just find myself thinking to myself "wow, if I could get into a show of any kind and have it last for a while" - that's when I find myself really happy.

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.

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

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

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

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

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

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

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.