I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room Mercedes McCambridge More Quotes by Mercedes McCambridge More Quotes From Mercedes McCambridge I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight. Mercedes McCambridge naked midnight sea 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-condition disease insanity Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time. Mercedes McCambridge drug alcohol waiting 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 tunes soul lying 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 sobriety reality years Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson. Mercedes McCambridge concern gentle son A rich man can afford to be generous to many. Mercedes McCambridge rich-man rich men 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 joy trying two Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be. Mercedes McCambridge mets queens want I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony. Mercedes McCambridge agony joy believe I am responsible for no one but myself. Mercedes McCambridge responsible 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 color imagination character I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me. Mercedes McCambridge rich fit people My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol. Mercedes McCambridge second-marriage alcohol Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come. Mercedes McCambridge dean young world While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress. Mercedes McCambridge progress play trying One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career. Mercedes McCambridge judgment careers acting My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights? Mercedes McCambridge light real names Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting. Mercedes McCambridge disgusting chic sick I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years. Mercedes McCambridge couple hate years
