Lorna Luft

“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.”

“My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Dinah had all the class.”

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

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