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 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

It takes awhile, but eventually you realize they lost you. You didn’t lose them.

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Gone surfing. Be back soon. -D

It takes the same energy to think small as it does to think big. So dream big and think bigger.

Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.

I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.

If you have the wherewithal to have a lot of money, have it.

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

Don't buy on tips or for a quick move.