Lorna Luft Quotes

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.

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

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

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.

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

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

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

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

A star needs all the rest she can get.

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

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

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

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

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.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

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

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

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