Lorna Luft Quotes
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The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
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One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
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When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
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My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.
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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.
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There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
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The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?
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Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
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Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.
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My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
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A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.
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When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
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People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
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I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
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My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
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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.
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Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.
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The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.
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Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.
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Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
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To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
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Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
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The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.