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

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 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

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

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

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

I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker