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

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

Anything is possible if you've got enough nerve

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.

Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now.

Now is the time to fix the next 10 years.

The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.

My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.

Be careful of who and what you let into your space. Not everyone is worthy of your presence.

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

My father is schizophrenia, but he's good people.