Quotes By Lorna Luft

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

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

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.

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off.

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 used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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