James Franco Quotes

I've never smoked crack. I've never done most things, drug-wise. But I assume that the experience I had watching Lost is the experience that crack addicts have smoking crack.

I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one. If you set me in front of anything, I will do it until I ram it into the ground and it's done working for me.

Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

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

Alcoholism is the disease of more.

Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate. I can't have a little bit of drugs.

For the past seventeen years I have been experimenting with lager. I am a lager user and one drug leads to another. If you do lager, as night follows day, you'll end up doing Kentucky Fried Chicken.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

Whether it's overeating or it's overworking or over-sex or whatever it is, alcoholism, drug addition, we push ourselves to the brink and then pull back because it's kind of exciting.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

Addiction is a neurological disease—a disease of the brain…. No one wakes up in the morning and says today ‘I want to become an addict.’

The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

I have an addictive personality, so when I like something, I really want it all.

I've got an addictive personality.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.

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