Quotes By Lorna Luft

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.

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

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

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.

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

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

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

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.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

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

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

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.

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

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.

Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.

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.

My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

I was born in a blender.

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

A star needs all the rest she can get.

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

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.