Lorna Luft Quotes
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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".
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Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
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A star needs all the rest she can get.
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When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
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When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
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A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.
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The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.
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I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.
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Dinah had all the class.
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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.
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To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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
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When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
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I'm extraordinarily honored and proud when I am told that I am part of the Broadway community and part of the Broadway family. Because, Broadway is a family. And it doesn't matter if you did one show or if you did fifty shows.
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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.
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I was born in a blender.
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People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
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My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
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Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
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Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.
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Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
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I guess the only way I could describe myself is someone that lives right in the present.
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If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off
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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".
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My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.
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Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
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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.
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