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

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

To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.

You will always be a hyena.

… The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. … The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.

God finally caught his eye.

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do.

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.