Lorna Luft Quotes
I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.
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.
Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.
Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.
My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.
People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
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.
My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences
When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
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.
My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.
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.
When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
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
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.
When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.
When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.
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.
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.
Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.
I think every show I do, whether I am doing eight shows a week of a Broadway show... I think, "that's a show I'll never get back"... I go home at night and I think to myself, "that was my favorite".
A piece of advice I would give to young actors - hang on to your family, and hang on to your reality - and hang on to your "real". Because you're going into the land of make believe.
