Tim Matheson Quotes

I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove I'm still a nutcase.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff.

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

Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made.

I had a real good thing going for me, and I got sidetracked. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be drugs. It doesn't have to be alcohol. That part of my life is over.

It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.

I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing.

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

We cannot arrest our way out of the drug problem.

The drug problem in this country is a consumption issue.

I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery. From his childhood.'

If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual.

I think anybody who's had an alcoholic in their life, or somebody with a drug problem, realizes that until things get bad enough, there's no incentive to change.

The lowest point for me was ending up in prison after a violent event. I realised I was way out of my depth.

Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.

I felt very accomplished staying busy in prison.

Drugs have ruined Punjab.