Lorna Luft Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

A star needs all the rest she can get.

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

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

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".

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

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

There's so much, I guess I want to say, nonsense about show business now. Because of reality television. I don't get this, because I was never raised to get this, but I don't understand wanting to be famous. Maybe it's because I was born famous, but I don't get it.

I don't like to hear anybody in show business complain, because I just find it to be such a grateful business. Because there are so many wonderful, creative souls out there and there are so few jobs. And, so, I just find myself thinking to myself "wow, if I could get into a show of any kind and have it last for a while" - that's when I find myself really happy.