Mercedes McCambridge Quotes

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

Mercedes McCambridge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 16, 1916 - March 2, 2004

Topics

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The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

Anderson Cooper

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Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

Robert Hughes

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I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

Michael Franti

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I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

Steve Coogan

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For some reason, they always gave me a fat suit in high-school productions. If there was a character who needed to be robust, they gave me a fat suit, and I put on a silly voice.

Matt Bomer

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To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

Mary Baker Eddy

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Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

Ludwig Bemelmans

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I plan someday to do a one-man show based solely on the e-mails of Bellamy Young. And people will think I've written a brilliant comedy myself when, in fact, all the text will be directly from Bellamy.

Joshua Malina

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Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.

Colm Toibin

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It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we survive on this notion. In our desire to gloss over the undeniable macabre parts of our American history, we forget. That amnesia manifests itself, especially when dealing with the plight of black men.

Colman Domingo

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I am a New Yorker.

Connie Stevens

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Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role.

Brad Dourif

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