Jean Cocteau Quotes

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

I've been trying to quit smoking weed and it's really hard quitting pot. It was actually easier to become a vegetarian because your friends never show up at your house with a sack of beef.

I'm off everything apart from the fags and the coffee. I don't know if it's worked. It works up until you take your first drink.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

I've had every known chemical - cocaine, booze - and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!

All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.

I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

I've never smoked crack. I've never done most things, drug-wise. But I assume that the experience I had watching Lost is the experience that crack addicts have smoking crack.

For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It's sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it's damaging your own personal health and it's damaging for you and your workplace.

Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.

Addiction is a revolt of the soul.

I haven't stopped smoking...anything

Once you're an addict, you're always an addict, so just because I found something good to do doesn't mean I'm not going to hurt myself doing it.

There's no drug that I would never take again.

I gotta quit smoking, doctor's orders, and the drinking, court orders.

Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.

If people are not smoking, they'll probably be drinking more.

I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate. I can't have a little bit of drugs.

I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.