Quotes By Lorna Luft

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

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

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.

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

I was born in a blender.

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

A star needs all the rest she can get.