Quotes By Mercedes McCambridge

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I am responsible for no one but myself.

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

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

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

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 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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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!

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

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.