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. — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
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
With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
