Quotes By Lorna Luft

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

Dinah had all the class.

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

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.

I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

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.

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

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.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.

Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.