Robin Williams Quotes

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

I was never able to have three of four beers. One's too many, and ten just ain't enough. Basically it's the way I've been since high school.

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

We knew the old liar drank a lot, but now we know just how much: 'He begins the morning with a sherry, then has a bottle of Burgundy with lunch. He often has a glass of port after lunch, but always one after dinner. There is whiskey in the afternoon and Champagne with dinner. Then some more port, and a glass of Cognac. As the night goes on, a whiskey and soda...'

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.

I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.

[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.

I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no time, in all my waking time, that I didn't want a drink. I began to anticipate the completion of my daily thousand words by taking a drink when only five hundred words were written. It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words with a drink.

I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.