Emma Thompson Quotes

I don't know if I was born an alcoholic, but I was definitely born anxious.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

I've been living with anxiety much, much, much longer than I've been with living with alcoholism, that's for sure. I already knew from the sheer numbers and all the data that I'm not alone. I mean, the biggest mistake I did was spending most of my life thinking I was the only person who felt this way.

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety.

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic.

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.

I really like 'Shameless' because it brings up important issues, but we get to talk and laugh and look at something that's really important that's a problem, like alcoholism and bad parenting. It's done in a funny, smart way.

News of Churchill. He is said to be in a very depressed state, spending the entire day smoking and drinking. This is the kind of enemy we need.

I'm in the pink of health except for the weight I put on because I'm now a stressful producer. But being the daughter of an alcoholic makes you four times more susceptible to becoming one.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They're on TV!