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

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

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

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..

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 ...….

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless..

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

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

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time..

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

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

It is said that people learn to hate each other because of little things ... not big ones. I know I have always learned to love because of little thi….

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 t….

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 ….

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 w….

Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'soci….

I was taught to be anti-Jewish..

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 aft….

My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe..

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson..

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