Benny Hill Quotes

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.

I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.

I do not feel called upon to try to reform any person over 25 years of age because by that time the habit has been formed. Then it is only a question of the strength of will or mind of the smoker which will enable him to stop. He knows the injurious effects and controls his own destiny.

If I quit all the things I loved cold turkey, I knew it would only be so long before I went back to my old ways.

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

But she told me she was never going to drink again.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

I keep saying I'm going to cut back on styling, but it's hard to give up.

I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life.

I've always had an addictive nature.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.