Quotes tagged ‘Alcoholism’

“I haven't had a drink in 12 years. I turned into my own enemy. I finally recognized the snake that bit me, and the fact that alcohol is poison for me. I was very ashamed.”

— George Peppard, articles.latimes.com

“The lie wasn't that addiction could yield truth. The lie was that addiction had a monopoly on it.”

— Leslie Jamison, nytimes.com

“Do you know what I was doing tonight, Mom? I was having fun, you know, trying to forget about all the crap that I have to deal with every day. Just enjoying a night with my friends. And then, there you are, wasted at the bar - where I work, by the way, to pay the bills that you don't pay. And then y…”

— Sean Reycraft, Gabrielle G. Stanton, Matt Donovan, Zach Roerig, imdb.com

“From the first time I ever drank alcohol, I got that warm feeling, I got that losing my inhibition feeling. And I wanted another one. I wondered was 6 was like, 8 was like. I was like, 8's fun, I wonder what 10's like.”

— Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, youtube.com

“The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

“Alcoholic parents are so confusing, they're your parents, so you love them. But they're drunks, so you hate them. But you love them, but you hate them. They have moments when they're still the people you grew up idolizing. They have moments when you can't imagine they were anything but monsters. And…”

— Nora Ephron, books.google.com

“I've probably pissed and gotten a bunch on myself. I have a lot of friends who do the sleep walking drunk pee.”

— Mac DeMarco, youtube.com

“For me, it's alcohol. For me, I think its called binge alcoholism. I'm drinking so I can get drunk. I'm not drinking so I can taste some weird crap.”

— Mac DeMarco, youtube.com

“Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.”

— George Jones, books.google.com

“If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic.”

— Paul Lynde, litera.co.uk

“Alcoholism is an insidious disease; until I confronted it I wasn’t aware that it was creeping up on me. I finally did AA in the hardcore down on Pico Boulevard. I said, ‘Don’t put me in with Elton John or anything, just throw me to the lions.’”

— Sam Shepard, theparisreview.org

“Samuel Jackson struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction early on in his career. It was so detrimental to his ability to act and function, he was replaced in two different Broadway productions. He tried supporting himself by working as a camera stand-in for Bill Cosby on The Cosby Show and perfor…”

— Katie Mather, thoughtcatalog.com

“God, I hope my kid doesn't end up in rehab. Or: God, I hope my kid doesn't end up in therapy...When we say things like that, though, we underscore the false belief that people who seek help are failures and people who don't seek help are a success. It's not true. Some of the healthiest, most accompl…”

— Sarah Hepola, amazon.com