Mitski Quotes

I have a reputation for drinking a lot. Indeed, I drink quite much. However, I give it up when I wish to do so. I never, ever drink while on duty. The drinking is only for my pleasure. I do not remember neglecting my duties because of drinking even once.

I love a drink. But I've never, ever in my life been on a stage and done a performance with an alcoholic drink inside me. Never have, never would. I've seen people who do and invariably they're never as good as they think they are.

I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.

I try to have little or no alcohol when I go to a big conference. Sorry to be a party pooper, but that stuff can regress you really fast, and this is not a good place to regress.

It's better to take sobriety with you when you work.

I don't drink. Don't smoke.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

I drink no more than a sponge.

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

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

As regards the use of wine, remember that we drink to quench thirst, and that the limit of moderation is reached when the edge of the intellect is dulled. A boy should be brought up to avoid wine…. Your own countrymen, like all northern peoples, are, I know, sore offenders in this matter of eating and drinking. But I count upon your own innate self-respect to preserve you from such bad example, and to enable you to despise the sneers and complaints of those around you.

Mrs. Hayes has been from childhood a total abstainer. I was not a total abstainer when I became President. But the discussions which arose over the change at the President's house soon satisfied me that in this matter, if our example was to be useful, there was no half-way house for me. During the greater part of my term and at least for the last three years, I have been in practice and in theory a total-abstinence man, and I shall continue to be so. All statements inconsistent with the foregoing are without foundation.

I don't drink wine during the day. Not even a little. Otherwise, the rest of the day is an apology.

I've found for playing that it's generally not a good thing to be drinking.

You don't hear about me being at parties, going out and gettin' drunk.

I basically gave up drinking. Personally, I thought I was drinking too much and, over the long run, it caught up with me.

I didn't even drink in college.

My rule - and I feel like this is a pretty good rule for life - no drinking while on television. I do not ever imbibe.

Alcohol is like anything else. It's only as bad as the person it's being poured into. If it's used to heighten an occasion, or to take an edge off stress, I don't see a problem. Trouble starts when you either lose control and let the bottle run you, or when you believe its promises of immortality. You realize that no matter how much you punish yourself, you always seem to wake up the next day. Pretty soon you're convinced that you will never die. When that happens I guess it is time to look for help before your life becomes one long, lost weekend.

I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.

I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.