Samuel L. Jackson Quotes

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.

My relationship with alcohol became unsustainable. For people who are going to ask, 'Were you an alcoholic?' I suppose the short answer is 'Yes.'

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.'

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

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.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.

I had to change my relationship with alcohol in order to become the man that I knew I could be and that my family would be proud of.

It's better to take sobriety with you when you work.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.