Lorna Luft quotes - page 2

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences. (Lorna Luft)
Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her. View quote
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Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. View quote
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Between them, my parents had 10 marriages. View quote
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To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits. View quote
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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. View quote
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My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition. View quote
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When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity. View quote
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Dinah had all the class. View quote
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I was born in a blender. View quote
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A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman. (Lorna Luft)
There is a time of reckoning in all our lives. View quote
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The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me. View quote
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I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama. View quote
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Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody. View quote
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My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend. View quote
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If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off. View quote
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Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make. (Lorna Luft)
It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started. View quote
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The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad? View quote
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Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother. View quote
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My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. View quote
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Lorna Luft

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Photo: Greg Hernandez at https://www.flickr.com/photos/greginhollywood/, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Actress
Born: November 21, 1952
Quotes count: 53