Lorna Luft

Actress

53 Quotes

Dinah had all the class.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

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

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

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

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.

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

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