Lorna Luft Quotes
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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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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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Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
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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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There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
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One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.
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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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My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
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My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
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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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A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.
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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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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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Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
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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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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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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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The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.
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Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.