Justin Chatwin Quotes

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

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

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

I love how 'Misfits' is a drama-comedy.

In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any more if I was dead.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

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

Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

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

I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.

I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.

I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

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

'South Park' is so hilarious... I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever.

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

Finding a way to find humor in things that are hardcore is definitely something that, I think, the sitcom does best.

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.