A biography for Mercedes McCambridgehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.”
“If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.”
“I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.”
“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'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!”
“My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.”
“I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.”
“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.”
“A rich man can afford to be generous to many.”
“There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.”
“Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.”
“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.”
“My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.”
“Most people call me Mercy. I like it.”
“I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker.”
“I was taught to be anti-Jewish.”
“I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.”
“My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.”
“I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.”