Lorna Luft Quotes - Page 2

When you're in show business no matter what you're doing it's an insecure business.

I did my first Broadway show when I was nineteen years old - and to be able to say that I am still working with the incredible talents of all of the creative teams that I have been able to work with - that's so special to me.

I think that when you're in your twenties you think about your future, when you're in your thirties you're raising kids and you think about their future, but when you get to a time when you are diagnosed with any kind of life altering illness, what did you take away from it? And what I took away from it was how to live in the "now".

I think every show I do, whether I am doing eight shows a week of a Broadway show... I think, "that's a show I'll never get back"... I go home at night and I think to myself, "that was my favorite".

I really don't look at my past and I really don't look too much to the future because I find that's sort of redundant. I really live right in the present. I live right in the now.

I guess the only way I could describe myself is someone that lives right in the present.

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

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

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

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

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

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

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

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

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

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Dinah had all the class.

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

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