Quotes By Mercedes McCambridge

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

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

Most people call me Mercy. I like it.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

I lose all control after two drinks of anything.

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