Lorna Luft Quotes
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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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My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.
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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 trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
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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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The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.
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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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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's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
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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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Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
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Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.
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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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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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To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
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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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Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
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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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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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A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.
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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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I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
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The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.
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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.