Lorna Luft Quotes

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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.

  Lorna Luft

  Magic, Hollywood, Evening

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Eyelashes, Aquariums

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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

  Lorna Luft

  Scary, Chaos, Frightening

  "How to Find the Gifts in Chaos" by Matthew B. James, Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2015.

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• A piece of advice I would give to young actors - hang on to your family, and hang on to your reality - and hang on to your "real". Because you're going into the land of make believe.

  Lorna Luft

  Real, Believe, Land

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• My feeling about young people who want to pursue a career is - the first thing is do your homework on where it all started. Go back and look at history. Look at why the shows you are loving today happened and the artists you are listening to happened. And do your homework on history. Whether it's musical movies, musical plays, Broadway musical recordings - do your homework! And then, that way you will have an understanding of why, now, certain movies, certain plays, certain musicals are making some sort of sense.

  Lorna Luft

  Artist, Play, Careers

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Phoenix, Ashes

  "Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir". Book by Lorna Luft, April 24, 1998.

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

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Electric, Audience

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

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, People, Freak

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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.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Years, Lasts

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Independent, Agents

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• 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.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Suicide, Anxiety

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• A star needs all the rest she can get.

  Lorna Luft

  Stars, Needs

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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

  Lorna Luft

  Addiction, Traits

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

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Should Have, Class

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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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  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

  Lorna Luft

  Reality, Actors, Odd

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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

  Lorna Luft

  Blow, Gun, Want

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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

  Lorna Luft

  Halloween, Hollywood, Looks

  Lorna Luft (1999). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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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".

  Lorna Luft

  Kids, Thinking, Twenties

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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

  Lorna Luft

  Drama, Accustomed

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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".

  Lorna Luft

  Home, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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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.

  Lorna Luft

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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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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  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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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.

  Lorna Luft

  Past, Looks, Too Much

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• In June 1968, five days before my mother's forty -sixth birthday, the world fell apart again. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy, who died the next day. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

  Lorna Luft

  Country, People, Mad

  "Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir".

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