Nobody 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.

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits

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.

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

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.

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.