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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport.”

“I lose all control after two drinks of anything.”

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

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

“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.”

“I am responsible for no one but myself.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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