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

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,

Huh, ” groaned Father Gabe. “I sympathize with you, Tommy. Relationships can be a crap shoot. You think you’re going to roll a seven and up pops snake eyes.

But with superior morale, with an unwavering, fanatical spirit, everything is possible!

I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.

Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

In this [fashion] business you're living in the future a lot of the time.

Competition is for the competent.

I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.