Quotes By Lorna Luft

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

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

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

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

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

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

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

I was born in a blender.

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

A star needs all the rest she can get.

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

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

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

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

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

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.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

Dinah had all the class.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

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.