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" Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed. "
Mercedes McCambridge
Try
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Only
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" I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker. "
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" I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done. "
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" My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless. "
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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 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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Life
Black
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" My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights? "
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Never
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" Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting. "
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Woman
Like
Many
" There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it. "
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Who
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" I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it. "
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Always
Three
Sacrament
" I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it. "
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Love
Feel
I Can
" Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson. "
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Person
Me
Knew
" So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so. "
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Think
Ashamed
Die
" I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport. "
Mercedes McCambridge
Call
Sport
Use
" If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation. "
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Shall
Heaven
Invitation
" I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room. "
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Funny
Die
Enough
" With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died. "
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About
Soul
Two
" I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits. "
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Than
More
Trouble
" Most people call me Mercy. I like it. "
Mercedes McCambridge
Like
Call
People
" I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony. "
Mercedes McCambridge
Joy
I Believe In
Believe
" Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another. "
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One Thing
Thing
Dallas Cowboys
" One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career. "
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Acting
Career
Out
" The great people I've met always have time for the niceties. "
Mercedes McCambridge
Time
Met
People
" 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. "
Mercedes McCambridge
Mirror
Used
Two
" Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come. "
Mercedes McCambridge
World
Young
Come
" I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years. "
Mercedes McCambridge
Sustain
Years
Cannot
" A rich man can afford to be generous to many. "
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Afford
Generous
Man
" I was taught to be anti-Jewish. "
Mercedes McCambridge
Taught
" I am responsible for no one but myself. "
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I Am
Am
Responsible
" Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time. "
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