Quotes from Mercedes McCambridge


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

    Work | Hardest | Exorcist


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

    Queen | Met | Joan


    It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two.

    Home | Beautiful | Mirror


    Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

    Woman | Sick | Disgusting


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

    Help | Die | Ashamed


    When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

    Work | Progress | Rehearsing


    With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died.

    Soul | Wicked | Account


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

    Suddenly | Dean | Fell


    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.

    Life | Community | Busy


    Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

    Work | Glad | Breed


    I was taught to be anti-Jewish.

    Taught


    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.

    Life | Black | Blue


    I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport.

    Sports | Call | Hunt


    I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

    Trouble | Truths


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

    Married | Anybody


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

    Hate | Sustain | Cannot


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

    Love | Insofar


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

    Joy | Agony


    I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.

    Rich | Gifted | Leave


    I am responsible for no one but myself.


       

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