Actors Quote by Mercedes McCambridge

“Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

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

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

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

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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted…

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I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

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As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

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The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if…

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No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty…

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A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

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I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

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American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?

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