Chris Pontius Quotes

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

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

To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

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

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

I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.'

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.

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

I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

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

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.