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Mercedes McCambridge

Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge (March 16, 1916 – March 2, 2004) was an American actress of radio, stage, film, and television. Orson Welles called her "the world's greatest living radio actress." She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for All the King's Men (1949) and was nominated in the same category for Giant (1956). She also provided the voice of Pazuzu (the demon) in The Exorcist (1973).

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Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

Chic, Disgusting, Sick, Woman

I don't think I should have been married. . . to anybody.

Married, Should Have, Think, Thinking

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

Admiration, Alcoholics, Alcoholics Anonymous, Anonymous, Boundless, Phenomenon

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

Aggravation, Climb, Heaven, Invitation, Ladders

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

Character, Color, Costumes, Imagination, Sets, Theater

I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.

Mediterranean, Midnight, Naked, Sea

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

Deceit, Deceits, Hype, Trouble, Truths

I 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!

Another Chance, Chance, Happily, Next, People, Prate

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

Actors, Certain, Orson, Should, Trying, Work

I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.

Bequests, Fit, Gifted, People, Rich

The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.

Great People, Mets, Niceties, People, Time

Most people call me Mercy. I like it

Call, Call Me, Like, Mercy, People

the 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.

Combine, Good, Joy, Lord, Trying, Two

So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so

Help, Helping, People, Say, Thinking

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

Alcohol, Marriage, Second Marriage

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.

Anger, Medicinal, Reality, Sobriety, Way, Years

I am responsible for no one but myself.

Responsible

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!

Kids, Lying, Old, People

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

Concentration, Play, Progress, Rehearsing, Trying

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.

Death, Disease, Human Condition, Insanity, Live, Thoroughly

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