My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

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

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPatience: A support for the disappointed.

I remember when you could get a good, virgin meal for half the price.

The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.

Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.

You can either buy shoes or paint.

Whatever you fix your eyes on is what you will encourage; fix your eyes on Jesus.

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

I can't tell you. I would say that if I did, I would have to kill you, but that wouldn't be polite.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

Focus on one thing, make it your priority, and stick with it no matter what!