Top 50 Lorna Luft Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Lorna Luft

2. “There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.”

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3. “I was born in a blender.”

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4. “Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.”

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5. “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.”

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

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7. “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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8. “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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9. “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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10. “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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11. “To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.”

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12. “There are some family traditions I don’t want my children to carry on.”

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

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15. “When you’re Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.”

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16. “My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.”

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

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18. “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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19. “I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.”

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

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21. “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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22. “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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23. “A star needs all the rest she can get.”

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24. “Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it’s also very addictive.”

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

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26. “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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27. “My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.”

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

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29. “People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.”

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

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31. “Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.”

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

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33. “The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn’t feel dressed without them.”

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

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

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36. “Sinatra was just one of Mom’s friends.”

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

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38. “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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39. “Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we’d never get his ego through the door.”

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

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

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42. “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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43. “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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44. “My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.”

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45. “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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46. “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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47. “Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn’t know her.”

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

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49. “Dinah had all the class.”

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50. “My mother’s life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.”

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