Eric McCormack Quotes

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

Rehab is like a divorce.

The road to sobriety is not easy and rehabilitation and the recovery process are not to be taken lightly.

One of my dearest friends is alive only because of AA. But it doesn't help a lot of people. And everyone is different, and everyone needs different kinds of treatments.

Drugs shift the way that we think. So, yeah, the logical thing would be to get help, but that's not the way addicts operate, which is why it's really, really hard to get someone to understand that they need treatment.

When you're serious addict, you tend to lie a lot.

I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

I knew if I got loaded I was going away for a while. People would say, Oh, you're just sober because you're on probation.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

When people ask me about drugs and alcohol, I say "Yeah, I went to rehab, I went to a mental hospital, I've been to jail." The main lesson you can learn is do drugs and alcohol when you are in a good mood, not when you are in a bad mood, and find balance in anything you do.

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.

I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.

Heroin may be bad, but it sure as hell hasn't hurt my CD collection.

I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.

I used to be a partier, now I'm an alcoholic. It's all in who's judging you.

I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.

Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

At 18, if someone had said to me, "I think you should go to rehab and get cleaned up," I would have thought, "You're fucking mad."

It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.

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

There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs.

Where there's dope, there's hope!