Jean Cocteau Quotes

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

Well, addiction does start with a choice.

Addiction is a terrible thing.

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

I've always had an addictive nature.

Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality.

Unfortunately, with addiction, there's manipulation and deception.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

I am an addictive personality.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

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

The process is very gradual, you see. At first there's the tainted stage; they know what will eventually happen to them if they go on but they say, 'Oh God, don't do it to me do it again, please, please.'

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.

I was a functional addict.