Lorna Luft Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Dinah had all the class.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

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

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

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

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

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

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

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

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

The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

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

I was born in a blender.