Mercedes McCambridge Quotes

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

Time, Wait, Alcohol

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

Wanted, Ask, Angel

I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.
Mercedes McCambridge

Rich, Leave, Seen

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

Death, Live, Human

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.
Mercedes McCambridge

Death, Times, Three

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.
Mercedes McCambridge

Admiration, Phenomenon, Alcoholics

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

Control, Two, After

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.
Mercedes McCambridge

Heaven, Shall, Climb

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

True, Deep, Soul

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

Rich, Generous, Afford

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

Person, Son, Knew

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

Time, Everybody, Awards

I am responsible for no one but myself.
Mercedes McCambridge

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

Hate, Cannot, Longer

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

Married, Anybody

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

Life, Job, Busy

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

Live, Find, After

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

Trouble, Truths

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

Life, Black, Whole

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

Loved, Playing, Miracle

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

Work, Done, Hardest

I was taught to be anti-Jewish.
Mercedes McCambridge

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: March 16, 1916

Died: March 2, 2004

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