Top 43 Quotes by Mercedes McCambridge

I am responsible for no one but myself.

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

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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