Mercedes McCambridge Quotes

"My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Admiration)

"Most people call me Mercy. I like it."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: People, Mercy)

"Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Woman)

"Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Now, Queen, Want)

"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
(Related: Home)

"My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?"
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Name)

"I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Death)

"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
(Related: People, Help)

"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
(Related: People, Confession, Kids, Old)

"If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Heaven)

"My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Soul, Deep, Harmony, Lies, Universe)

"My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Marriage, Alcohol)

"Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Cowboys)

"Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Work, Actor)

"The great people I've met always have time for the niceties."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Time, People)

"There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: People, Disease)

"When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Work, Progress, Nothing, Play)

"With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Soul, Husbands)

"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."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Time, Awards)

"I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Flowers, Play)

"Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: World)

"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
(Related: Acting, Career)

"I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Love)

"A rich man can afford to be generous to many."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Man)

"Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Time, Alcohol, Will)

"Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Son, Concern)

"I am responsible for no one but myself."
- Mercedes McCambridge

"I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: People)

"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
(Related: Death, Disease, Insanity)

"I was taught to be anti-Jewish."
- Mercedes McCambridge

"I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Hate, Years)

"I don't think I should have been married... to anybody."
- Mercedes McCambridge

"I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker."
- Mercedes McCambridge

"I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Work)

"I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Joy)

"I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me."
- 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
(Related: Life, Community, Hollywood, Job, Now, Right)

"I lose all control after two drinks of anything."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Control, Drinks)

"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."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Life, State)

"I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: People)

"I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits."
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: Trouble)

"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!"
- Mercedes McCambridge
(Related: People, Being, Chance, Glory)