Everything edible is fried in Texas! Or it is buried in the ground to cook before it is eaten. ... Texas food should be forbidden! 'The steaks at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas!' And they are always afloat in grease. Next morning you are served a smaller steak, which serves as a platform for two fried eggs ... all of this afloat in the same grease! 'Chicken, you say? You bet! Comin' up!' Same grease! They are right. Comin' up! For hours afterwards. I couldn't believe the crust of an apple pie! Same grease!
Mercedes McCambridgeMy only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
Mercedes McCambridgeAside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
Mercedes McCambridgeI've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it
Mercedes McCambridgeI'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
Mercedes McCambridgeWhile I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
Mercedes McCambridgeI 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 McCambridgeWith two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died
Mercedes McCambridgeLike many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.
Mercedes McCambridgeIt 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 things ... I'm not at all sure that there are any big ones.
Mercedes McCambridgeIt 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 McCambridgeAlcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
Mercedes McCambridgethe 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 trying.
Mercedes McCambridgeI 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!
Mercedes McCambridgeJoan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.
Mercedes McCambridgeLike 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 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.
Mercedes McCambridgeI'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up and it was getting closer to my turn, I knew that when I got into the box I would lie! Again!
Mercedes McCambridgeI 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
Mercedes McCambridgeOnly a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.
Mercedes McCambridgeOne of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
Mercedes McCambridgeThere are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it
Mercedes McCambridgeMy name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?
Mercedes McCambridgeSo many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so
Mercedes McCambridgeMy 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 ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.
Mercedes McCambridgeNobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.
Mercedes McCambridgeAt 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.
Mercedes McCambridge