Doug Stanhope Quotes

I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.

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.

Why is it a badge of honour to say you spent 15 years in AA ball?

How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?

It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs.

Friend of mine just told me he used to be a bad alcoholic. I calmed him down. Told him he was a good alcoholic just a horrible drinker.

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic, but the acceptance was key to my sobriety. If I had not gained acceptance at that time in my life, I would not be standing here today.

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

I've been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was [really] an alcoholic. Honestly, I only used to do cocaine so I could sober up and drink more. My last five years of drinking was a nightmare. I was drinking a half-gallon of rum with a fifth of rum on the side, in case I ran out, 28 beers a day, and three grams of cocaine just to keep me moving around. And I thought I was doing fine because I wasn't crawling around drunk on the floor.

A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.

I drink to forget I drink.

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

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

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.

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.

I used crack cocaine probably in one of my drunken stupors

Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it.

If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.

Actually, I used to think that it was normal to feel bad, like, Doesn't everybody feel like this? It was only when my drinking really got out of control that people went, 'Troy, you need to see somebody.'

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.