73 Quotes by Mercedes McCambridge

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The great people I’ve met always have time for the niceties.

I’ve always had bronchitis. I’ve been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.

I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I’ve ever done.