Daniel Baldwin Quotes

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

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

I've always had an addictive nature.

I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

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.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

I was an ego maniac with a self-esteem problem and that's what most addicts are like.

I have a lot of shame, and until I got sober at 42 years of age, I had never voted. I was just a hippie.

Anybody who's dealt with addiction and depression knows that sometimes they can make you forget who you are and kind of bring out a different person, somebody you don't know as well.

I'd never put much thought into writing an autobiography before, because while I have this public persona of being extremely confident, I also am extremely filled with self-doubt, worry and insecurity. This book came about because I was trying to sell another book, unsuccessfully, about health and wellness.

One thing I learned about that I always knew about myself - that I always been afraid of myself.

I've always thought in the back of my mind I could do something really special with my life and I was just on a real path to not achieving that, and I blame that on alcohol.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

My toughest enemy is in the mirror - would you look at that.

I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.