Mercedes McCambridge Quotes

I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.

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

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

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

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

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.

the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

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!

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

It is said that people learn to hate each other because of little things ... not big ones. I know I have always learned to love because of little things ... I'm not at all sure that there are any big ones.

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

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

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

Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.

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

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

I was taught to be anti-Jewish.

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

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.

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