Oliver Reed Quotes

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

I have a very powerful form of alcoholism. I finally gave up and accepted the fact that if I even smell too much booze, I'm going to start drinking again. That's just how I am.

I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 22 years, but when I did drink I'd go for either Canadian whisky or Budweiser. Sometimes both. For a long time I used to think "Hey you, get off the floor!" was my name.

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

I had to stop drinking alcohol, because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.

The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

Treatment of alcohol addiction can take many forms.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

"It's just literally being afraid. And you think, oh, [the alcohol] will ease the fear. And it doesn't." What was he afraid of? "Everything. It's just a general all-round arggghhh. It's fearfulness and anxiety." He added, "For that first week you lie to yourself, and tell yourself you can stop, and then your body kicks back and says, no, stop later. And then it took about three years, and finally you do stop."

It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.

I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.

A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.