I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done

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 always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

Innovation gives life to imagination by providing that it is true, real, and useful.

I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home.

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

I love performing in any medium, and more the opportunities you have to vary things, the more you learn.

Just to have the confidence to say, "Which end of that spectrum am I usually on?" That's been very helpful to me. Because it's a really awkward setting.

When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.

The only real freedom we have left is the home. Only there can we express anything we want.