Top 76 Quotes & Sayings by Lorna Luft

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

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

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

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

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

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

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

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

Dinah had all the class.

A star needs all the rest she can get.

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

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

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

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

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.

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

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

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

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

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

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.

I was born in a blender.

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.

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

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

My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

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

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

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

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

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.

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

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

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

A piece of advice I would give to young actors - hang on to your family, and hang on to your reality - and hang on to your "real". Because you're going into the land of make believe.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

My feeling about young people who want to pursue a career is - the first thing is do your homework on where it all started. Go back and look at history. Look at why the shows you are loving today happened and the artists you are listening to happened. And do your homework on history. Whether it's musical movies, musical plays, Broadway musical recordings - do your homework! And then, that way you will have an understanding of why, now, certain movies, certain plays, certain musicals are making some sort of sense.

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

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

Every time I go out on a stage I consider myself very lucky. Because, in a time where people are economically thinking about what to go and see - so, when I am on a stage, and it doesn't matter where I am, that's my favorite show. I come home after and say "That was my favorite show".