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 More Quotes by Lorna Luft More Quotes From Lorna Luft I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic. Lorna Luft evening magic hollywood The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them. Lorna Luft aquariums eyelashes mother The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks. Lorna Luft freak mother people 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 odd actors reality My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior. Lorna Luft lasts mother years If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off Lorna Luft gun blow want Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting. Lorna Luft halloween hollywood looks 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 twenties kids thinking Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her. Lorna Luft girl would-be littles Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life. Lorna Luft friends-for-life love-of-my-life gone Between them, my parents had 10 marriages. Lorna Luft parent 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 too-much looks past Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment. Lorna Luft moments children way Dinah had all the class. Lorna Luft class Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her. Lorna Luft dating princess thinking 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". Lorna Luft home people thinking Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles. Lorna Luft crazy mother people A star needs all the rest she can get. Lorna Luft stars needs A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman. Lorna Luft leading-on gay men 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
