Jamie Lee Curtis Quotes

I have a lot of shame, and until I got sober at 42 years of age, I had never voted. I was just a hippie.

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.

I'm very proud of my sobriety now.

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.

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

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.

I got sober, and I got happy again.

I'm a much more successful and happier person sober. And I'm nicer to be around.

When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you've been suppressing it forever. It's so much easier to navigate what's important.

I'm sober now and very happy.

The thing that drove me, and the thing that still drives me today to stay sober is all the blessings that have come into my life since this happened.

When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young.

I've enjoyed every day of sobriety and I felt so much better immediately.

It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic, but the acceptance was key to my sobriety. If I had not gained acceptance at that time in my life, I would not be standing here today.

I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too.

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.

It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great.

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

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.

Anybody that's not supportive of me staying sober obviously has to go. But on the other hand, there are not really a lot of people who don't want me to stay sober. I was a nightmare.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.