Sally Kellerman Quotes

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

I drink to forget I drink.

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

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

Drunkenness was extremely common… It seemed for many the only refuge from depression and misery. The effect of drunkenness upon the ordinary relationship of husband and wife, parents and children, was disastrous.

When I was drinking I was thinking I was having a good time but it came back twice as bad, the depression. It was just a vicious circle - drinking, not caring about myself - and it gave me a bad low.

As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

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

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

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

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Joe McCarthy was the local town drunk in a business suit.

John Adams and John Quincy Adams had six sons. Two of these were great statesman and four were drunks. For the Adams family it was the White House or the Ale House …. Family pressure is part of what drives people to drink.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

If you are to be employed by the BBC, you must promise not to get drunk…. You look as if you will be washed out of poetry by whisky.

… a jackass in the original package. He is a poor drunken imbecile.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world

I used crack cocaine probably in one of my drunken stupors