Marilu Henner Quotes

If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.

I was getting depressed, I was going out, having a few drinks and the worst thing you can do with depression is add alcohol to it.

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

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

I'm a classic stress-eater, so I know a lot about how eating can become a way of hiding from what's really wrong. I escape into food. But some people escape into books. Some into relationships that might not be good for them. The three main characters in 'The Sugar Queen' struggle with each of these comforts-turned-crutches.

I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

If I want to be truthfully honest, I think, dealing with the stress of the situations that I've been going through, medicating with anything, I think, is dangerous because it becomes a crutch.

I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

I started doing cocaine to get through interviews, 'cause people wanted to know a lot about my personal life and I wasn't prepared for a 60 Minutes interview every time. Doing bumps I was able to get through the day, but then I would smoke weed to calm me down - it was the only way I could get through the day without people noticing I was doing it.

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.