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Lorna Luft
American
Actress
About the author
When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Want
When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Heart
#Mother
#Feelings
Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Years
#Mother
To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Being
#Drinking
#Smoking
There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Time
There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Want
#Children
#Family
#Traditions
The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#People
#World
#Country
The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#People
#Mother
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.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Now
#American
#Difference
#Childhood
The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Mother
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.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Kids
#Daughter
#Being
#Questions
#Mother
The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Career
#School
The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Mother
Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Hollywood
#Meeting
Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Friends
#Mom
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.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Time
#People
#Sense
#Mother
#Performance
#Humor
People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#People
#Daughter
One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
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.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Mother
My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Competition
#Sister
My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Life
#Mother
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.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Mother
#Night
Dinah had all the class.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Class
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Death
#Mother
My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Being
#Mother
#Disaster
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Mother
#Class
#Guilt
Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Mother
#Shadows
Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Living
#Chaos
Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Life
#Will
#Force
It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
A star needs all the rest she can get.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Needs
#Rest
Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Life
#Love
#Being
#Friend
A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Work
#Career
Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Children
#Present
Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Criticism
#Dating
Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#People
#Mother
Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Ego
I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Life
I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Life
#Living
#Drama
I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Body
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.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Life
#Past
#Pain
#Shadows
I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Hollywood
#Being
#Magic
#Evening
I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Fun
#Friends
#Drugs
I was born in a blender.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Want
Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Parents
My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Power
#Mother
#Audiences
A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Man
#Leading
#Woman
#Business
#Gay
My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Years
#Mother
#Behavior
When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Opportunity
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.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Mother
#Attention
#Suicide
#Anxiety
When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
Lorna Luft,
American
Actress
#Chance
#Public
#Rest