Hilton Als Quotes

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.

What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

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.

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

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

Addiction is a terrible thing.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

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 do not understand rehab. If it works for people, then God bless them.

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.

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

If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.

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

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

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

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about trying to get my father healthier, and there were moments when he was healthier. Then someone would give him a drink. I always felt if he had one person in his life who supported his healthy side, he'd be on his way.