Lorna Luft Quotes

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

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

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

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.

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

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Sinatra was just one of Mom’s friends.

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.