Quotes About Addiction

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

I'm quite a tuxedo junkie, I collect them all year round.

TV rots your brain.

I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.

The problem with me and TV shows is once I start watching them, I have to watch them all because I'm so impatient. I need the entire series to be on TV, and then I'll sit all day and watch the entire thing. So I did that with 'Homeland,' and I did that with 'Veep.'

League of Legends' is banned in my house and rightly so. It is just awful. In the past, I've been staying up and playing it. Then all of a sudden, it is 6 A.M., the birds are tweeting and I'm thinking: 'Oh my God, I've got to get up in a couple of hours to take my son Alexander to school. Then I've got to practise.'

In the early '80s, the arcade game Pac-Man was twice as popular as oxygen.

I watched 'Downton Abbey' twice, and I'm thinking of watching it for a third time. It is so good!

I relish tea, but I am not an addict. Twice a day is fine.

I do get addicted to stuff. I tried playing golf and I was soon going twice a day.

I watch very little television, actually. There's so many shows I want to watch and then I know I'll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing.

I understand the pain of withdrawal, too. I wouldn't want that on anybody.

Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their profits on the destruction of whole societies.

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

more you drink more you want

I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling

One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that.

Being in rehab it's no fun. But afterwards it's like the best thing ever. I didn't want to leave.

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

Every time I get up and sing for people, I get such a high. I just want to do it again and again.