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… — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share
I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting. — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress. — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress. — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time. — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me. — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
