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
Mercedes McCambridge quotes about
I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.
I lose all control after two drinks of anything
Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.
Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.
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.
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.
I am responsible for no one but myself.
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.
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.
Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.