Randy Harrison Quotes

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

When it came to 'Binge,' it wasn't my intention to get on a little soapbox and have a teaching moment. It was more, 'Here are things that have happened to me; here's what I've learned from it. If you'd like to learn from it too, great; if you just like the entertainment aspect, that's fine too.'

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

Let me tell you, everyone has different experiences. I had a lot of things going on, and I am dealing with it in my own way.

I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot.

To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed to have been a lot of alcoholism.

My life sucks when I’m only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what it’s really like, I’d probably jump off a bridge.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

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.

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

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.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.