“I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.” FirstsLongEndsLinesRecordsPeriodsAlcoholReputationCaptainsTailsSoberAlcoholicsSobrietyLong Lines Author:Moby
“Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.” DrugAlcoholExceptionAddictAlcoholicsNarcissisticDrug AddictInstabilityManicDepressive Author:T.C. Boyle
“My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was a drug addict and alcoholic. So, I think they very consciously made decisions and parented me in a way that was aimed to help save me from that. So, I knew it would be particularly painful and it was, especially for my father.” ThinkingWayMadeHelpingWould BeMotherFatherDecisionHalfBirthDrugRaisedPainfulViolentAddictAdoptedAlcoholismAlcoholicsDrug AddictSave Me Author:Melissa Febos
“I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict what he would do, where he would be, who he would be. And it's sort of interesting because Eleanor Roosevelt never writes about her mother's agony. She only writes about her father's agony. But her whole life is dedicated to making it better for people in the kind of need and pain and anguish that her mother was in.” PeopleMenNeedsWritingKindMeanWholeWould BePainLife IsMotherSufferingFatherInterestingWifeWhole LifeDedicatedAgonyAnguishAlcoholicsEleanor Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.” PeopleWellsMeanChildrenMadeRealityAgeDiesFatherPerfectWonderWifeInvolvedDrinkDiedFaultsVariousMiserableTragicPausesIgnoredAlcoholicsUnreliableEleanorDiseasedPerfect Father Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's in widow's weeds. She's in her 50s, but appears very old. And she's exhausted from raising rather out-of-control children. Her favorite daughter, Anna, has died (Eleanor's mother), and she has living at home two other sons, Vallie and Eddie. And they are incredible sportsmen, incredible drinkers, out-of-control alcoholics.” WellsChildrenTwoHomeMotherDiesSonDaughterDiedIncrediblesMourningGrandmotherHallsWeedExhaustedAlcoholicsWidowsAnnaDrinkersEleanorSportsman Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first character who came to me: I envisaged the misshapen offspring of beautiful, wealthy parents. Then I realised that he bore a striking resemblance to Toulouse-Lautrec. I developed that, made Holman an alcoholic who lives among hookers, an artist tortured by his disability.” WritingFirstsMadeBookCharacterMightWantedBeautifulArtistParentStudyWealthyDisabilityBoresAlcoholicsRealisedGeneticsOffspringResemblanceToulouse Author:Jonathan Trigell
“I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.” KnowsShouldSelfSidesInvolvedDrugAccountsBubblesAddictAlcoholicsLarryDrug AddictAbsorptionSelf AbsorptionKramer Author:Elton John
“My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you're not loved, often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.” PeopleSelfReasonMotherLove IsViewsDrugOppositesAbuseAddictionAlcoholListsIndifferenceRejectionDestructiveAddictAlcoholicsDrug AddictSelf DestructiveSelf Destruct Author:Bernie Siegel
“You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just lonely and all I really want is a hug, but I gotta capture that in something real gross." You start to understand why circus clowns are alcoholics.” WantRealTurnsAttentionLonelyDesperateCaptureHugGrossClownAlcoholicsCircusSomething RealCircus Clowns Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.” MenLooksLawFoundFatherAttentionHappenedBrotherDadMalesMy DadGood ManAlcoholicsSomewhere ElseAbsentIn-lawsBrother In Law Author:Jim Hamilton
“I became alcoholic at around age of 13 or 14. I was full-blown. Every day we would hide the alcohol, stealing from stores or stealing it from our parents and hiding out in dirt fields and drinking it before school and after school.” AgeSchoolParentFieldsDrinkingAlcoholStoresStealingHidingDirtAlcoholicsAfter SchoolHiding Out Author:Reginald Arvizu
“When I hit Hollywood, it was full-blown. I was a party boy. It amazes me that I made it ... to be able to have led this amazing career when I was out every night. Every once in a while I'll see old reruns of myself and I see I'm giving it my comedy best, but with dead eyes - no sparkle. I was in the middle of all that abuse. But now I'm a recovering alcoholic with many years of sobriety.” GivingYearsMadeEyeAbleNightPartyBoysCareersComedyMiddleHollywoodAbuseMade ItEvery NightAlcoholicsSobrietySparkleRecoveringRerunsRecovering Alcoholics Author:Leslie Jordan
“Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.” DoneCuteAlcoholicsDinersFootloose Author:Kevin Bacon
“Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a bender down at the corner bar.” TryingProblemCreatingCornersSolveDebtBarsAlcoholics Author:John L. Casti
“I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.” SaidDiseaseExcuseExplanationAlcoholics Author:Malachy McCourt
“Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.” KnowsI CanCan DoHealingDutyObligationAlcoholics Author:Malachy McCourt
“I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.” FatherDiseaseAlcoholicsDeserted Author:Malachy McCourt
“I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.” UsedSmokeCigaretteAlcoholicsRecoveringPhilanderer Author:Malachy McCourt
“I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church and his being thrown out of the Mormon Church and growing up with this sense of being evil.” KnowsSelfEvilChurchGrowing UpGrowingTearsGayDrunkDestructiveThrownExesAlcoholicsSelf Destructive Author:Andrew Solomon
“I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.” PeopleKnowsFeelsHas BeensBookHardFactsPracticeHeardHavensExpressionContemptInvestigationLecturesAlcoholicsAlcoholics Anonymous Author:Marianne Williamson
“I think we all have something in our life's experience that makes us feel different. It's whether we have a gay parent or we have an alcoholic mother or maybe we don't know our father. And it's something that we feel bad about initially because we think we're abnormal. What's abnormal is our assumption that there's something called 'normal.'” ThinkingKnowsFeelsDifferentMotherFatherParentOur LivesGayNormalAssumptionAlcoholicsOur FatherAbnormalGay Parents Author:Amy Richards
“On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.” WarHumorDrugPrisonAverageAlcoholReleaseMore TimePrisonerAlcoholicsWar On DrugsDrug ProhibitionOvercrowding Author:Michael Badnarik
“Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.” HumorPayCrimeDrugProfitAlcoholCriminalsViolentStealingWarfareViciousAddictGangAlcoholicsProhibitionGet MoneyViolent CrimesDrug ProhibitionMarijuana Prohibition Author:Michael Badnarik
“I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.” PeopleThinkingKindMeanDifferentEverydayAlcoholNewspapersConsistentDifferent KindsAlcoholicsAllergicAllergies Author:Van Morrison
“[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell.” MeanWaitingLowsRingsBellsAlcoholicsAlways Waiting Author:Van Morrison
“Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.” PeopleSawsOne DayGood ThingsInsightAlcoholTeenagerPlusLitAlcoholicsAlcoholics Anonymous Author:Van Morrison
“One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.” HumorDestinyJourneyDrugForgottenAlcoholAlcoholicsRehabilitation Author:Peter Hobson
“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.” LoveFeelingsSorrowDrinkingAlcoholDecentSwimOverwhelmedAlcoholicsDrinking AlcoholGood FeelingFunny AlcoholAlcohol DrinkingAlcohol And LifeHappy FridayBeing Overwhelmed Author:Frida Kahlo
“I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink two times a year. When it's my birthday, and when it's not my birthday.” YearsTwoDrinkAlcoholicsMy Birthday Author:Bill Murray
“I could probably play an alcoholic. I've had some experience with that.” PlayAlcoholics Author:Dick Van Dyke
“Movie stars exaggerate certain things to let the audience know they're just playing a character, as if they're saying, "Look at me, I'm not really an old man, I'm just playing one." Or "I'm not really a homosexual, I'm just playing a gay character. Or an alcoholic. Or somebody who's mentally impaired." They often do it very successfully and win awards for it.” IfsKnowsMenLooksCharacterCertainWinningStarsAudienceGayOld ManAwardsHomosexualLook At MeMovie StarAlcoholics Author:Curtis Hanson
“Epicurus thought that friendship and conviviality, which require present attention rather than being in an alcoholic stupor, as well as trying to understand and explain things, were the greatest sources of satisfaction in life, so there go most drugs.” TryingWellsAttentionSourceDrugSatisfactionAlcoholicsSatisfaction In Life Author:Catherine Wilson
“I really needed to dramatize and clarify that Rachel was taking strides towards her own healing and her own sobriety - and that she was actually thoroughly frightened about what she may have done.This was something that was so beautifully done in the book [The Girl on the Train] through inner monologue, but I couldn't just have a whole film filled with inner monologues. So going to Alcoholics Anonymous was a very simple solution to that problem.” MayBookDoneWholeProblemFilmGirlSimpleHealingNeededSolutionsFilledTrainFrightenedAlcoholicsSobrietyStrideMonologuesAlcoholics AnonymousSimple Solutions Author:Erin Cressida Wilson
“I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the Wild West, and New York was like London at the height of the Victorian era, in which everyone was far more obsessed with table manners and status-climbing than they are in London. In London, everyone was just crawling over this blizzard of cocaine. Here, if you have more than a glass of wine with your meal, people refer you to Alcoholics Anonymous.” PeopleIfsIdeasNew YorkTablesWineWestGlassesLondonMannersErasHeightObsessedMealsClimbingVulgarAlcoholicsCocaineVictorianCrawlingAlcoholics AnonymousWine GlassBlizzardVictorian EraWild WestBrashLondonersTable Manners Author:Toby Young
“[ If I wasn't making music ] I'd probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber's ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.” IfsGivingEndsSchoolMovingGiving UpTicketsAlcoholicsPlumberJust Give UpEdmonton Author:Mac DeMarco
“You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.” ActingSurprisingAlcoholics Author:Carrie Fisher
“I met [my editor] in a bar where alcoholic beverages are served and I bought her one and I told her the idea. And she said that she liked it very much, which embarrassed me because I thought it meant that she was a lightweight and that in the morning, as so many women say to so many men, what seems like a good idea, you know, turns out not to be.” KnowsMenSaidIdeasSeemsTurnsMorningMetsBarsEditorsGood IdeasEmbarrassedAlcoholicsBeverages Author:Daniel Handler
“Because Brenda [Carlin] had a drinking problem along with the coke, she had to hit bottom first. Most alcoholics do. And for her, bottom was an automobile accident that almost landed her in jail.” FirstsProblemDrinkingBottomAccidentsJailAlcoholicsAutomobileCokeDrinking Problem Author:George Carlin
“Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.” IfsSelfCultureHalfSurvivalInstinctAlcoholMechanismAlcoholicsCopingSurvival InstinctWisconsinCoping MechanismsSelf Deprecation Author:Amy Pietz
“I think one of the myths is that people don't change. A lot of people believe that. Their spouse has been an alcoholic for the first 10 years of the marriage, and they say they are never going to change.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsBelieveHas BeensMythSpouseAlcoholicsDon't ChangePeople Don't Change Author:Gary Chapman
“I think one of the other myths is that your environment determines your happiness. That if you are living with an alcoholic or living with a depressed spouse for a long time, you are just going to be unhappy.” IfsThinkingLongEnvironmentLong TimeDetermineMythUnhappySpouseAlcoholicsOur Environment Author:Gary Chapman
“Very few alcoholics get into a treatment program until they are at the end of the rope, often when they feel like they are about to lose something that is important to them, namely a wife or their family. The same is true with those who are physically and verbally abusive.” FeelsImportantEndsLosesWifeProgramTreatmentRopeAlcoholicsAbusive Author:Gary Chapman
“I hope the reader's sense that I am deeply empathetic with the pain of being in a desperate marriage, but I also believe that the person who is married to the abuser or the alcoholic or whomever has the greatest potential for helping them.” BelievePersonsHelpingPainReaderMarriedDesperateAlcoholicsEmpatheticAbusers Author:Gary Chapman
“I placed myself in amongst the animal kingdom so that I would be able to confront myself actually. It did not start out as the intention to serve and protect the lives of the innocent within the animal kingdom. I wanted to test myself, to see if I was able to overcome the dire situation that I was headed toward. By this of course I mention the fact that I was an alcoholic and drug addict before I left to live in the wild.” IfsFactsWould BeAbleWantedCoursesLeftAnimalSituationDrugProtectTestsOvercomingIntentionKingdomsInnocentAddictAlcoholicsDrug AddictAnimal Kingdom Author:Timothy Treadwell
“Have you ever known an alcoholic, a cigarette smoker, or a heroin user to be rational when it came to alcohol, cigarettes, or heroin? Of course not. And there is NO such thing as a rational - or ethical - meat, dairy, egg and honey-eater when it comes to animal issues and whether humans should be enslaving, murdering and eating animals, or using them as test subjects, clothing and entertainment.” ShouldHumansCoursesAnimalKnownIssuesSubjectsEatingTestsEntertainmentAlcoholRationalMeatEggsEthicalHoneyClothingsUsersCigaretteAlcoholicsHeroinDairySmokersEating Animals Author:Gary Yourofsky
“It takes a lot of time to be a good junkie or alcoholic - you spend hours getting the necessary supplies, then imbibing, then recovering, rinse and repeat. That's like eighteen hours of a day. And assuming you get out of that lifestyle before it macerates your heart, you have that Junkie Tunnel Vision, except now you get to use it for something positive: you know how to work tirelessly for one thing. Instead of using that tunnel vision to get high, I use it to make art.” KnowsHeartArtUseHoursVisionKnow HowOne ThingAssumingLifestyleRepeatsAlcoholicsTunnelsEighteenSuppliesJunkieGetting HighRecoveringTunnel VisionImbibing Author:Joshua Mohr
“We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted, and we spoke to a lot of people. When I met James [McAvoy] in the Soho Hotel with Jon Baird, the director, he looked about ten years old. I thought there's no way he's going to be a forty-year-old divorced alcoholic cop. I thought, really lovely guy, I'll let him and John talk and see if they get on.” PeopleIfsWayYearsKindMadeWantedFilmGuyLevelsMetsDirectorsTenLovelyFinanceHotelFortySpokesCopDivorcedAlcoholicsFilthSohoForty Years Old Author:Irvine Welsh
“I've been a makeup artist since I was 12 and it was always a dream of mine back them to have my own line. I would spend hours every night recreating looks I saw in my mother's Cosmo magazines and it was my escape. When you come from a poor background and a family full of alcoholics, you don't fully understand what that means when you're a little kid. I found art and makeup, it changed my life.” LooksMeanLittlesArtDreamKidsMotherArtistNightFoundHoursLinesMy OwnPoorSawsChangedMinesBackgroundsMagazinesMakeupEvery NightLittle KidAlcoholicsChanged My LifeMakeup ArtistPoor Background Author:Jeffree Star
“If we were a culture of high-risk alcoholics, and suddenly we had Jack Daniels piped into our houses, we would be feeding that fire. Social networking, and the internet as a whole, seems to have simply landed in an extremely fertile place in an extremely fertile time in history, when we all have these narcissistic tendencies anyway - you can go further back into the self-esteem movement, and Dr. Spock, and the 'everybody gets a ribbon at the track meet' sort of thing, which preceded the internet - and then you drop the internet into the middle of this, and we've all gone haywire.” IfsSelfWholeSeemsWould BeCultureHouseSocialGoneFireRiskMiddleSelf EsteemMovementInternetTrackTendenciesEsteemDrsFeedingNetworkingAlcoholicsNarcissisticSocial NetworkingFertileSocial NetworkRibbonsHigh RiskJack Daniels Author:Jeffrey Kluger