Quotes By Mercedes McCambridge
When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
Mercedes McCambridge
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!
Mercedes McCambridge
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
Mercedes McCambridge
Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.
Mercedes McCambridge
So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so.
Mercedes McCambridge
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
Mercedes McCambridge
There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.
Mercedes McCambridge
My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?
Mercedes McCambridge
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.
Mercedes McCambridge
Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.
Mercedes McCambridge
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.
Mercedes McCambridge
I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
Mercedes McCambridge
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.
Mercedes McCambridge
With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died.
Mercedes McCambridge