If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

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

Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

Even though human spirit always enjoys the peace, the human ego drives joy from war.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one

If mankind was playing a baseball game, he would still be choosing his lineup after the game was over.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.

Anything worth doing is worth 100%.

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.