One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions. Lorna Luft More Quotes by Lorna Luft More Quotes From Lorna Luft Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive. Lorna Luft frightening chaos scary I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it. Lorna Luft chemicals health body I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping. Lorna Luft surviving coping thinking To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits. Lorna Luft marijuana high-heels drinking My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. Lorna Luft should-have mother class The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me. Lorna Luft one-thing mother I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama. Lorna Luft accustomed drama A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone. Lorna Luft wells live-by careers Maybe people don't know I'm a news junkie? I watch and I tape a breadth of everything that's happening in the world, and that fascinates me. Lorna Luft tape watches people 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. Lorna Luft shadow pain past There is a time of reckoning in all our lives. Lorna Luft reckoning our-lives 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 anxiety suicide mother I'm extraordinarily honored and proud when I am told that I am part of the Broadway community and part of the Broadway family. Because, Broadway is a family. And it doesn't matter if you did one show or if you did fifty shows. Lorna Luft broadway community fifty My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences Lorna Luft electric audience mother Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make Lorna Luft making-changes force wanted 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 phoenix ashes mother The Broadway community is unlike any community in show business and it is unlike any community in the world. When you come into the Broadway community they open the door and they say "welcome". Not only do they do that, but when times are really tough and horrendous things have happened and really tragic things - the Broadway community shows up! And they say "how can we help?". Lorna Luft community doors world 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. Lorna Luft humor mother people When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest. Lorna Luft chance parent idols There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on. Lorna Luft tradition want children
