Mackenzie Phillips 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.

I had to change my relationship with alcohol in order to become the man that I knew I could be and that my family would be proud of.

When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.

When I stopped drinking... there were so many things I had to face that I didn't even realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any changes that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

Change doesn't happen often, but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

I'm a much more successful and happier person sober. And I'm nicer to be around.

I can't emphasise enough how grateful I am to have come upon sobriety.

When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you've been suppressing it forever. It's so much easier to navigate what's important.

Most of my standup is about stuff that makes me uncomfortable. There are also things I don't joke about. I don't do jokes about the people who helped me get sober.

When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young.

I don't drink. I don't do any drugs.

I don't drink anymore.

I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future.

I was such a heavy drinker I was going to die at age 37. Not to mention the drugs. I'm glad to be sober, I haven't missed a thing. A lot of people never get the chance to come back.