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
Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.
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 great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.
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.
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.
My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?
Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.
Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.
I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.
I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.
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.
If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.
Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.