Mercedes McCambridge Quotes

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.

Mercedes McCambridge

• Reality
• Overcoming
• Sobriety

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

Mercedes McCambridge

• Believe
• Sides
• Agony

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

Mercedes McCambridge

• Want
• Knows
• Queens

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

Mercedes McCambridge

• Waiting
• Patient
• Alcoholics

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

• Universe
• Knows
• Lying

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

Mercedes McCambridge

• Naked
• Midnight
• Mediterranean

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

Mercedes McCambridge

• Funny
• Flowers
• Humorous

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

Mercedes McCambridge

• Thinking
• Hardest
• Exorcist

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

• Human
• Disease
• Conditions

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

• People
• Thinking
• Wanted

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

Mercedes McCambridge

• Persons
• Concern
• Governors