Kirstie Alley Quotes

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

The alcoholic suffers from a disease.

Black people are killing themselves with alcohol ... it is a scourge of our neighborhoods. It's a disease that feeds on our people.

If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

Drug education is the only vaccine we have against the danger of drug abuse of our children.

The drug problem in this country is a consumption issue.

We have lost the War on Drugs. We cannot arrest our way out of it….It’s a public health problem, not a crime problem.

For far too many people, the stigma around addiction prevents them from stepping forward for help.

The scary part of alcoholism and addiction and that is until a person is ready to stop, they're not gonna, and there's nothing anyone can do. There's nothing anyone can say or do. And the unfortunate part is sometimes people die because of that.