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

My 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.

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.

With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died

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

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

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