Robert Byrne Quotes

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

Gamble until you die. I do not really care.

I've got an addictive personality.

When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.

I used to have a gambling problem.

When I lose a big pot, I go a little crazy.

If you want to gamble, so be it, but when it gets to the stage where gambling is the only thing you are thinking of and it is affecting your life, that's when you need to put a hold on it.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.

I've always had an addictive nature.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.

Alcoholics are amazed when I admit to them my addiction to work. Here I have a ground of real and not imagined empathy with them. Against the background of this, I have dubbed this addiction of myself and my fellow ministers as “workaholism.”

I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.