Quotes By Lorna Luft

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

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

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

Dinah had all the class.

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.

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.

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

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

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

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

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

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

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

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

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

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

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.

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

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.

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?