Quotes By Mercedes McCambridge

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

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.

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

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