I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.
Mercedes McCambridge
I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.
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!
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
I was taught to be anti-Jewish.
When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
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.
Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.
There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.
I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done.
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.
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.
Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
A rich man can afford to be generous to many.
My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.
I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.
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!
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.
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 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 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 loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker.
I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.
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 second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.
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.
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.
