Phil Daniels Quotes

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, either.

Sobriety has been the most life-affirming path for me.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.

I could eat healthier; I could drink less.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.

I need you to read more and drink less.

It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.

I was kind of lucky because I was fit and healthy when I was in my teens, got a bit wild in my 20s, and stopped round about my 30s.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.

I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.

I had a real good thing going for me, and I got sidetracked. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be drugs. It doesn't have to be alcohol. That part of my life is over.

When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I don't even go there.

I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.

I don't think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who are good people getting better at being themselves - to me, that's something that's really interesting to watch.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.