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 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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Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.
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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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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.
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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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To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
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A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.
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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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I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
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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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My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.
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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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Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
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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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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
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Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
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Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
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There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
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The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.
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Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.
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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.