Lorna Luft's Quotes

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

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.

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.

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.

I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.

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

The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.

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.

Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.

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

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.

A star needs all the rest she can get.

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

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

Dinah had all the class.

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

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

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

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

I was born in a blender.

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