Lorna Luft Quotes

My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.

I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.

I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole. Their lives are never fully their own - always in the grip of a parent who put celebrity ahead of them.

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

I had a beautiful mother and a famous father, and I didn't know where I fit in.

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

It's sad that my daughter will get attention because of her daddy. I'm already watching her run around the house and pick up microphones. It's scary.

I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.

I think a famous parent is really different from a famous grandparent. My parents are very successful, but no one knows who they are, and they live a completely grounded, homey life. I'm friends with the Gummer girls, whose mum is Meryl Streep, and that feels from the outside like a different kind of burden.

Even though my parents were famous actors, I honestly felt most of the time that I didn't understand what was going on.

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?

My father was bigger than life, an entity and everyone expected us, as his offspring, to be saintettes, these little carbon copies.

I'm not interested in hiding from the fact that my parents are actors. I'm proud of them! It's very ordinary to pursue a career that your parents do, but when it's in the public eye, it becomes a complicated thing.

As soon as people heard me speak, they would compare me to my father. My siblings had the same kind of pressure.

I wasn't necessarily aware of what my dad did, but I was aware that wherever we'd go, there would be attention. I was never comfortable with it.

It's funny 'cos I think a lot about kids who grow up with their parents being really important members of their fields, and they just go the opposite way.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived