Mercedes McCambridge Quotes

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

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Sea, Midnight, Naked

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Alcohol, Waiting, Drug

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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• 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

  Lying, Soul, Tunes

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Believe, Agony, Joy

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• 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, Years, Sobriety

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• 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

  Insanity, Disease, Human Condition

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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• 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

  Two, Joy, Trying

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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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

  Character, Color, Imagination

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• 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

  People, Another Chance, Next

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Helping

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

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Son, Gentle, Concern

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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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.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Hate, Love Is, People

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Thinking, Done, Exorcist

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

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Angel, Guardian, Wanted

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Queens, Want, Mets

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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.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Drinking, Simple, Animal

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Believe, People, Disease

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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• My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Admiration, Alcoholics Anonymous, Phenomenon

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I was taught to be anti-Jewish.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Taught

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• I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Couple, Hate, Years

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Men, Rich, Rich Man

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I am responsible for no one but myself.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Responsible

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Real, Light, Names

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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

  Mercedes McCambridge

  World, Dean, Young

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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