If You Know Me, I Don't Live

For Me Reading The Book [the Exorcist], I Had The Same Questions That Everyone Else Had. How Does She Jump Up And Down Off The Bed? How Does Her Head Spin Around? How Does She Throw Up?

I Had No Way To Have A Sense Of Humor About The Exorcist. I Didn't Know How. And This Enabled Me.

People Always Joke That 'dog' Spells 'god' Backwards. They Should Consider That It Might Be The Higher Power Coming Down To See Just How Well They Do, What Kind Of People They Are. The Animals Are Right Here, Right In Front Of Us. And How We Treat These Companions Is A Test.

Warner Brothers Had To Hire [a Stunt Double] And No One Thought A Child Could Do This. Billy Friedkin Came To Me Before We Were Filming [the Exorcist] And Said "if You Do Not Do All Of This Film, The Film Will Be A Joke." It's Why They Stripped The Makeup Down To The Bare Minimum, A Piece On My Chin, Piece Across My Mouth That Disfigured My Mouth. You Have Scars Here. Take Away My Eyebrows. It Was My Real Hair. Shampoo Was Put In It That Dried.

I Think That If I'd Not Made The Movie, I Might Be A Veterinarian In Connecticut. I Would Probably Be Married With Some Children. That's Probably The Way It Would Be. But Because Of The Film [the Exorcist], I Don't Have A Normal Life By Somebody Else's Standards.