Mercedes McCambridge Quotes
Carlotta Mercedes McCambridge was an American actress.
(1916 - 2004)
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A rich man can afford to be generous to many.
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Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
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Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
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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.
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I am responsible for no one but myself.
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I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.
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I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.
[Agony]
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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.
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I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.
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I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.
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I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.
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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.
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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!
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I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.
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I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport.
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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.
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I lose all control after two drinks of anything.
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I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker.
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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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I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done.
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