Quotes from Mercedes McCambridge

I am responsible for no one but myself.

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

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

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

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

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 have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport

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 cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

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

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

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

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

With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.

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