Mercedes McCambridge Quotes

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Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up ONE MORE TIME. It will wait forever.

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.

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

Mercedes McCambridge
Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.

Mercedes McCambridge
My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

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

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That drives me crazy, when people say, "you were the voice in The Exorcist", no! I tried very hard to create a character. A demon. Lucifer.

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

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

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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

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It is said that people learn to hate each other because of little things... not big ones. I know I have always learned to love because of little things.... I'm not at all sure that there are any big ones.

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

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Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.

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I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits. It's always been hard for me to make people believe I am telling the truth.

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

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

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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.

Mercedes McCambridge
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
A person born Irish bears somewhat of a curse,
But not to be Irish is a fate even worse.

Mercedes McCambridge
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!

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

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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
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