Burt Lancaster Quotes

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.

Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

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.

I drink to forget I drink.

'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

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

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

While we may have taken away some of the criminal element when we repealed prohibition, we certainly didn't solve the problem of alcoholism.

I refer to the fact, acknowledged now by all professionals in the field, that alcoholism as such is not a legal problem—it is a health problem.

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

Treatment of alcohol addiction can take many forms.

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.

Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life!.

I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.