Lorna Luft Quotes

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Lorna Luft

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 21, 1952

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

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

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Dinah had all the class.

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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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Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

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

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

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

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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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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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