Stewart Lee Quotes

I drink to forget I drink.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

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

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

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

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.

To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.

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

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

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

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.

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

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

If I did all the stuff I've been accused of - or credited with - there's no way I could make all this music. I'd be drinking myself into the grave.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

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