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I guess the only way I could describe myself is someone that lives right in the present.

Lorna Luft

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Lorna Luft
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 21
Film Actor
Film Actress
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Santa Monica
California
Someone
Right
Way
Describe
Guess
Present
Lives

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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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Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
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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.
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My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
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The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off
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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.
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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences
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Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
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My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
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I understand wanting to do your craft. I understand wanting to have a passion for your art and for your ability to be an actor, to be a singer, to be a dancer - that I understand. Wanting to be famous - I don't get that. But that's where we're living right now.
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To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
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The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage after the first concert to meet the Beatles in person. I had a huge crush on George Harrison at the time, having inherited my family's passion for skinny musicians, and I was simply awestruck to be meeting the Fab Four in person.
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When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
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