There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

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

Do you believe in magic?" she asked. "I believe in you, " he said. "And you're the closest thing to magic that I've found.

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

As a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy.

Wrestling is a fraternity, and the boys will work their butts off for you as long as you respect them and don't lie. You can't anyone walk all over you or everybody will walk all over you.

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

Glad you're back to normal. The makeup and the dress were a lot more intimidating than the dagger." "Get going, Sparky, before I skewer you." "Sparky?

I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'

There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.