Mercedes McCambridge Quotes

I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy.

I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up and it was getting closer to my turn, I knew that when I got into the box I would lie! Again!

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it

I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done

So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so

Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.

I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.

With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died

The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.

Most people call me Mercy. I like it

I lose all control after two drinks of anything

I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

I was taught to be anti-Jewish.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.