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

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

- Mercedes Mccambridge

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

- Mercedes Mccambridge

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

- Mercedes Mccambridge

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

- Mercedes Mccambridge

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

- Mercedes Mccambridge

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 ...…

- 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

- Mercedes Mccambridge

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

- Mercedes Mccambridge