Quotes About Addiction

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

Being a mom makes me prioritize the game of basketball for what it is - a game. For so long I was so addicted to it and it would get me really high or really low. Now I know that once I walk off the court, I can't control that anymore and I have other things I have to focus on and give my attention and love to.

I'm a big fan of 'Prison Break' - I've watched it eight times.

If you leave government life for greener private sector pastures, why on earth do you still need to peep into the nether reaches of national secrets unless you're either addicted to preserving that special power or you plan on making sweet cash off your top secret stash?

When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

I got addicted to the hands-on problem-solving through the process of making or designing something. Architecture school was really influential and amazing.

My father was an alcoholic. I come from a family of them, so it's genetic luck or malfunction that I've ended up with no enzyme that processes it. I literally can't drink.

The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!

If, at any moment, reality gets dull or boring, our phone offers something more pleasurable, more productive and even more educational than whatever reality gives us.

Anybody who's dealt with addiction and depression knows that sometimes they can make you forget who you are and kind of bring out a different person, somebody you don't know as well.

From techies to film stars and kids, everyone is addicted to technology in different ways.

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

I'm an addict. I've been one my whole life. Most of it was channeled in the right direction, whether it was playing basketball or working out. From the time I was little, my mom said I always needed to be entertained.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart problem; it is that.

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.

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

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.