Andre Gide Quotes

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy. It's really depressing, but she likes her life because she has comfortable clogs.

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.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

I used to get drunk every night until I puked. Finally I admitted, "I am a bulemic".

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.

I drink to forget I drink.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.

Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.

But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.