Ridley Scott Quotes

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

It is a lot of work being an addict. There's nothing harder than being an addict.

Secrets keep addicts ill and cost lives.

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

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.

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

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

Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality.

I was a functional addict.

Well, addiction does start with a choice.

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

I'd go on runs [on cocaine ], four and five days without sleep. Then I'd crash and sleep about 18 hours a day for seven to ten days. Then it would take a few more weeks to get over a vague sort of depression. Then I'd be off on another run.

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.

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.

Drugs scared me.

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

Addiction is a terrible thing.

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.

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

I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.