Tom Arnold Quotes

When I hit Hollywood, it was full-blown. I was a party boy. It amazes me that I made it ... to be able to have led this amazing career when I was out every night. Every once in a while I'll see old reruns of myself and I see I'm giving it my comedy best, but with dead eyes - no sparkle. I was in the middle of all that abuse. But now I'm a recovering alcoholic with many years of sobriety.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.

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

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

You can't legislate sobriety.

The other guys drink, but they don't drink anywhere near what I used to. And I think they're slightly respectful of the fact that I'm off it, so it's not a problem.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

We have drunk too much of your rum already, which has occasioned our destruction; we will, in the future, beware of it.

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.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whoever is deceived by it is not wise

The temperance movement must include all poisonous substances which create or excite unnatural appetite, and international prohibition is the goal.

Drugs come to America, not by invasion, but by invitation.

For all our policing, we understand that law enforcement is not the solution to the problem of drugs in our society.

[Referring to alcohol:] After the lapse of nearly fifty years of undisputed political freedom, the blood-freezing clank of a cruel bondage is still heard.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

Alcohol and other drug problems are community problems and must be solved by communities in partnership with government.

We cannot conceive of a society that is worth building ... on the basis of a drug culture.

Black people are killing themselves with alcohol ... it is a scourge of our neighborhoods. It's a disease that feeds on our people.