Lorna Luft Quotes

I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?

I still can't believe I danced with Gene Kelly. How lucky am I that I've been in movies where I've danced with two of the greatest dancers of all time - with Gene Kelly and John Travolta.

As a kid I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.

Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget.

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

For me, growing up in Indiana with cornfields and churches, I was always very intrigued by the Academy Awards - they were a big event. That was the one night of the year when all of the glittering movie stars got together, and I used to love that night because, as a child, it was a way to dream for me.

My idol when I was a kid was Elizabeth Taylor.

If I'd been an actor in the 1940s, I would have been in fashion.

Hollywood must have been terrific once.

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry. I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.

I don't have any interest in being a movie star.

I don't want to be in Hollywood or anything like that.

To try to crack into Hollywood, it's a dream come true.

I had one day with him, and he was asleep in the scene, but I told my entire family that I was in a scene with Michael Caine.

Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?'

I grew up in a really small town in Georgia, so the idea of knowing people who are actors or who are just involved in the Hollywood and movie scenes, that's far beyond anything I ever thought would happen in my life.

In Hollywood, all of your dreams can come true.

I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all those dashing leading men.

If you really want to understand Hollywood, you have to live in it.

The actors I admired were Bogart, Cagney, Cooper, Tracy. Great personalities. Real stars.

My mom always had me and my brother watching old Fred Astaire movies.

I'm going to be a movie star, break Hollywood.

No one is bigger than cinema.