Octavia Spencer Quotes

I'm totally clean and sober my whole life.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

To me, it is like a diabetic with insulin. If that diabetic stops taking insulin, they will die, and I believe that if I don't follow the 12-step programme, I will regress, and that could eventually be the death of me.

Lot of my life is involved in the 12-step program and the church.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

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

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

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

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.

In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.

People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.

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

Being sober is not a struggle for me.

Above anything else - above family or job - the main thing is staying sober. That's because without being sober, I don't have a family.

I'm clean and sober.

Every relapse is dangerous, but often it takes multiple relapses before someone finally gets sober for good.

My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.

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

I'm very proud of my sobriety now.

I remember being very young and going to AA meetings with my father in Brooklyn. I thought it was fun because they served hot chocolate and cookies.

For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.