Mercedes McCambridge Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Mercedes McCambridge:

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.
~Mercedes McCambridge


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#407cb14a

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#426a4649

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#e1c50220

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#6df6c2d3

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!
~Mercedes McCambridge


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#f0da4435

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#ab9dda6d

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#84e9283a

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#1f221d76

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#9ae0d744

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#c8fd462c

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#50c0576a

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#85cd80ca

I am responsible for no one but myself.
~Mercedes McCambridge


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#4adc336f

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#06306343

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#36faf2f6

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#a05aa330

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#65153280

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#c8dcd57b

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#ecee9f8f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#198a936b

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#b19d5133

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#3d9abd8c

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#5d4621c7

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#2975d865

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#448f8a70

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#1ed47b36

So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so.
~Mercedes McCambridge


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#8b3ab4a7

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#b03a3d6c

Most people call me Mercy. I like it.
~Mercedes McCambridge


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#eb2f1dae

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#087016ea

I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport.
~Mercedes McCambridge


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#86c87c1b

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.
~Mercedes McCambridge


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#8360b1d9

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#fb9708e1

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#f06c68e8

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#fe351def

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#166ec493

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#8e1ff9c2

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.
~Mercedes McCambridge


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#88bb16e4

I was taught to be anti-Jewish.
~Mercedes McCambridge


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#b1946ac9

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#02849b6c

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#6be8ca9a

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#85c176f9

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mercedes-mccambridge-quotes/#8e4129c8

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