Eddie Redmayne Quotes

A drunkards purse is a bottle.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.

Liquor perverts the end of society, and unfits us for all those distinguishing and exquisite Feelings, which are the Cordials of Life, and the noblest Privileges of Humanity.

The speech of a Creek—Indian, against the immoderate use of spirituous liquors. Delivered in a national assembly of the Creeks, upon the breaking out of the late war.

I can go eight days without a drink—but who wants to be a camel.

Prohibition created more drunks than anything else.

Home Protection—protection against the tyranny of drink.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world

I like beer.

My life revolves around chipotles.

nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.

Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.

Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)

Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.