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Mercedes McCambridge

"Most people call me Mercy. I like 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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"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."
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"So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so."
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"I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me."
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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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"I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony."
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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 are black and blue."
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"It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two."
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"I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done."
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"I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!"

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