Barry Hannah Quotes

One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved.

I drink to make other people interesting.

I lose all control after two drinks of anything.

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

I like the effect drink has on me.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

I wasn't drinking to get drunk. It's social drinking, so what's the point? It's empty calories, you're poisoning yourself.

No. I think they're the idiot people and I'm the normal person. But I don't really go to parties where...I don't really have drunk friends. My friends are kind of adult; they have a drink. But they hold their liquor. I think it's incredibly embarrassing when people are drunk. It just looks so ridiculous. I find it very degrading. I think, oh, you're really degrading yourself right now, to be this pissed out in public.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

God,” I moaned. “Do they use that stuff as rocket fuel?” “No one made you keep drinking it.” “Hey, don’t get preachy. Besides, I had to be polite.” “Sure,” she said.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

I'm not claiming to be sober. I think that that would be misleading. I drink alcohol. My father has a vineyard, and the wine is really delicious, by the way.

I know people that have blacked out that I party with that dont do anything irresponsible. They just act drunk, ... I dont think people should ever drink by themselves because they need to have friends around that can keep them in line in case they do blackout.

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.