Mercedes McCambridge
Mercedes McCambridge
Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridgewas 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 Menand was nominated in the same category for Giant. She also provided the voice of Pazuzu in The Exorcist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth16 March 1916
CityJoliet, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.
A rich man can afford to be generous to many.
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 loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker
With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died
I am responsible for no one but myself.
It is said that people learn to hate each other because of little things ... not big ones. I know I have always learned to love because of little things ... I'm not at all sure that there are any big ones.
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.
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.
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.
Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.