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Quotes I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits. 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. 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. I am responsible for no one but myself. Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting. With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died. My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol. I`d never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room. I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years. 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 after! So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so. I`m glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight. I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I`ve ever done. 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. At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did. Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time. I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn`t ask for one. One was assigned to me. I don`t think I should have been married... to anybody. I was taught to be anti-Jewish. I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker. Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson. I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport. I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony. If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation. One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career. The great people I`ve met always have time for the niceties. I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me. I`d stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again! 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. When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress. I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it. There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it. My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe. Most people call me Mercy. I like it. I`ve always had bronchitis. I`ve been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it. A rich man can afford to be generous to many. Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another. My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless. Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come. I lose all control after two drinks of anything. Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I`m glad I`m one of that breed. Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don`t want to be. My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights? | ||
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