Quotes By Lorna Luft

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

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.

Dinah had all the class.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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