I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

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

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.

My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

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

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.

I am the reincarnation of Pikachu. That's why my hair is yellow, you see.

The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

I have had just about enough of other guys trying to turn you, Raven. There is only one vampire who will," he said confidently. "The one who you were always meant for-me.

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.