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.

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.

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

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

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage after the first concert to meet the Beatles in person. I had a huge crush on George Harrison at the time, having inherited my family's passion for skinny musicians, and I was simply awestruck to be meeting the Fab Four in person.

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

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