Flowers Die Quotes by Mercedes McCambridge

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

— Mercedes McCambridge

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

— Mercedes McCambridge

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

— Mercedes McCambridge

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

— Mercedes McCambridge

Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was…

— Mercedes McCambridge

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to…

— Mercedes McCambridge

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

— Mercedes McCambridge

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

— Mercedes McCambridge

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

— Mercedes McCambridge

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they…

— Mercedes McCambridge

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

— Mercedes McCambridge

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

— Mercedes McCambridge

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

— Mercedes McCambridge

Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes…

— Mercedes McCambridge

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that…

— Mercedes McCambridge