Quotes from Mercedes McCambridge

the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

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!

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

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

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.

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

Most people call me Mercy. I like it.

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

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

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!

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

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

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

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

I lose all control after two drinks of anything.

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

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

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

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

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

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.