I was taught to be anti-Jewish.

Most people call me Mercy. I like it

Most people call me Mercy. I like it.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

I lose all control after two drinks of anything

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I lose all control after two drinks of anything.

I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.

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

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done

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

I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done.

I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport

I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport.

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

Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.

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

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

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

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

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

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

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.

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

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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