Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Mercedes McCambridge
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mercedes McCambridge
Age: 85 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 17
Died: 2004
Died: March 2
Actress
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Joliet
Illinois
Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge
Theater
Listener
Characters
Constructs
Truly
Costumes
Color
Listeners
Imagination
Colors
Character
Sets
Mind
Perform
Radio
Palette
More quotes by Mercedes McCambridge
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.
Mercedes McCambridge
I lose all control after two drinks of anything
Mercedes McCambridge
I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.
Mercedes McCambridge
If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.
Mercedes McCambridge
There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it
Mercedes McCambridge
I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.
Mercedes McCambridge
My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.
Mercedes McCambridge
While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
Mercedes McCambridge
My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?
Mercedes McCambridge
I was taught to be anti-Jewish.
Mercedes McCambridge
I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.
Mercedes McCambridge
I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport
Mercedes McCambridge
Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
Mercedes McCambridge
The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.
Mercedes McCambridge
I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker
Mercedes McCambridge
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
I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.
Mercedes McCambridge
I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits
Mercedes McCambridge
My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.
Mercedes McCambridge
My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.
Mercedes McCambridge
