Quotes from Lorna Luft

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make

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

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.

I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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