Quotes By Mercedes McCambridge

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.

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

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

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.

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.