Quotes About Addiction

I have watched 'Wolf of Wall Street' like eight times.

A woman can never have enough shoes.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

I've been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb.

Women have this obsession with shoes.

Talking about my addiction to alcohol is therapeutic. Most definitely telling everyone about it is as well.

Some therapists have proclaimed: 'Co-dependency is anything, and everyone is co-dependent.'

I didn't check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place - I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy and stuff like that, but it's good. I'm great. I feel fine.

Many years ago, when I was working on Broadway, I used to go to a drug rehabilitation centre on Sundays. I didn't lecture them against the perils of drug-taking; I gave them drama therapy.

Nothing good could ever have come of my life if I hadn't been able to get therapy and overcome my addictions.

They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

There are three things that I'm addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I'm addicted to the cheer moment. 'Librarians' has plenty of them. Next, I feel that life is hard, and I want my entertainment fun, and 'Librarians' is fun as a Christmas party. And third, I like to be moved.

I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.

I'm of the school of thought where, if you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

You can go to the pictures or read a book, but football constantly comes back into your mind. It's not a job, it's a life. It takes up your time, thoughts and energy and it can damage relationships with those around you.

My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.' -- Roy Blount Jr.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'

You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can go down. That's it. After a certain point, though, no matter what you do, what you take, you don't go anywhere, and that's when you've got to sit down and face yourself.

It's as if our culture is addicted to fear and the flat screen is our drug dealer.

Why, oh why won't she just overdose?

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.