Ellen Burstyn 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.

Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

It really is like a disease. I just couldn't get away from the theater.

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

Romantic love is an addiction.

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.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.

Addiction is a neurological disease—a disease of the brain…. No one wakes up in the morning and says today ‘I want to become an addict.’

The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

I drank from the bottle again and it was a scary plunge because I always wanted to take too much. It hurt, but it was also impressive, like being in the hands of a bigger force. And because of that, a relief.

I've never smoked crack. I've never done most things, drug-wise. But I assume that the experience I had watching Lost is the experience that crack addicts have smoking crack.

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.

Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate. I can't have a little bit of drugs.

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

I can't stand when people use drugs as an escape. It's like, everybody suffers. Deal with your issues, you'll feel so much better.

Im either running from life or im just waiting to die im the supplier or fire if you chasing a high.

Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.

I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.

I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.