Lorna Luft Quotes

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

Started, House, Parties

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

Life, Wanted, Changes

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

Mother, Her, She

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

Mother, She, Guilt

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

Mother, Her, She

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

Power, Mother, Her

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

Mother, Her, Last

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

Life, Mother, Destroyed

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

Sister, Felt, Liza

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

Mother, Everyone, Kids

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

Families, Addictive, Addictions

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

Hard, Child, Daughter

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

Humor, Time, Mother

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
Lorna Luft

Mom, Friends, Sinatra

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

Mother, False, Essential

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

School, Career, High

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

Mother, Night, Show

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

Between, American, Difference

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

Mother, Her, Stranger

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

Country, Why, Mad

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

Family, Children, Carry

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

Smoking, High, Drinking

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

Mother, Through, Gone

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

Show, Call, Tonight

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

Mother, Heart, Feelings

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Nationality: American

Born: November 21, 1952

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