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

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

[Jesus] said, “Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are ill.…For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners” (Matt. 9:10-13). Jesus opened up God’s heart to men.

Calvi was sobbing. This couldn't be! A moment ago the Pope was healthy, smiling. How could His Holiness be no longer? Only a month into his papacy!

I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child.

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.

You can't judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

I think we have to show some pride in the jersey that we are wearing, and can’t quit.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God.