Dinah had all the class.

I was born in a blender.

A star needs all the rest she can get.

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

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

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

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

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

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

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

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

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.

When you're in show business no matter what you're doing it's an insecure business.

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

I guess the only way I could describe myself is someone that lives right in the present.

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

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

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

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

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

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

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

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

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

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

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

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

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.

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

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

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?

My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

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