Words matter. These are the best Lorna Luft Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.
Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
My mother’s life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
My mother wasn’t rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
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.
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.
A star needs all the rest she can get.
Sinatra was just one of Mom’s friends.
Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn’t know her.
When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.
Dinah had all the class.
I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.
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.
When you’re Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
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 high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.
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.
A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.
A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.
If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.
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.
The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?
Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.
The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn’t feel dressed without them.
Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we’d never get his ego through the door.
It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.
Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.
