Jamie Dornan Quotes

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

The alcoholic suffers from a disease.

I love to help others that are suffering from the disease of addiction, and I'm just very, very passionate about that.

Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.

Well, addiction does start with a choice.

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

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

The process is very gradual, you see. At first there's the tainted stage; they know what will eventually happen to them if they go on but they say, 'Oh God, don't do it to me do it again, please, please.'

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.

The tragic fact is that with addiction, like many other illnesses, sometimes you can do everything right and people die.

Unfortunately, with addiction, there's manipulation and deception.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

I think I've definitely had my rock bottom and I think that was probably right before I went into treatment where I said, 'I definitely need help.'

When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.