Mercedes McCambridge Quotes

» 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.

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

» A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

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

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

» 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.

» I am responsible for no one but myself.

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

» 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.

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

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

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

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

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

» 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 lose all control after two drinks of anything.

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

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

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

» I was taught to be anti-Jewish.

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

» I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

» I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.

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

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

» 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.

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

» Most people call me Mercy. I like it.

» My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

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

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

» My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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