Lorna Luft Quotes

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Lorna Luft

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 21, 1952

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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A star needs all the rest she can get.

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

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

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