Bob Fosse Quotes

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

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

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

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

Maybe in my life I sort of put myself in situations that were chaotic, outside of my life.

It's not that I will die, but if I stop partying, it will lead to extreme complications in my wellbeing.

I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.

I had plenty of vices growing up.

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

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

It's a universal experience to be compulsively doing something that's damaging your life.

I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.

There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.

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.

You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

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.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

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.