Quotes By Mercedes McCambridge

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

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.

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

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!

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

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

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

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

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

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

Most people call me Mercy. I like it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.