A rich man can afford to be generous to many.
Mercedes McCambridge

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

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
Mercedes McCambridge

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

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

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

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

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

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


I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.
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

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

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.
Mercedes McCambridge

I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport.
Mercedes McCambridge

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

I lose all control after two drinks of anything.
Mercedes McCambridge

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

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

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