George Gobel Quotes

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

People come up to me and talk about the alcoholism in their family.

Drunkenness was extremely common… It seemed for many the only refuge from depression and misery. The effect of drunkenness upon the ordinary relationship of husband and wife, parents and children, was disastrous.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it.

My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.

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

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.

I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

Alcohol remained, and remains, a vital instrument of social control, used without any regard to its horrifying consequences in addiction and violence.

The alcoholic suffers from a disease.

A river of grog is killing people and destroying our communities. Spiritually, socially, psychologically, there is a total breakdown in families where people are drunk most of the time -- the children are not safe.

My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.

I'm nothing but a drunkard. Why do people expect me to be anything else?

If you think I'm a drunk, you shoulda seen my old man.

I am an alcoholic. It took me a long time to admit that to myself. It took me a long time to admit it to my family, but I am.

The fact that I'm sober isn't really public knowledge, decidedly and deliberately.