Russell Brand Quotes

My relationship with alcohol became unsustainable. For people who are going to ask, 'Were you an alcoholic?' I suppose the short answer is 'Yes.'

I used to get drunk every night until I puked. Finally I admitted, "I am a bulemic".

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.

It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.

'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

... franking junkies ...

If you don't know someone who's had a problem with addiction, you will.

Unfortunately, with addiction, there's manipulation and deception.

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.

I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

I think that I'm coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.

When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.

I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.

It's not a drug problem, until you run out of money. Until then it's just drugs.

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

A lot of people that are in the disease of drinking and using can be caught up on the denial aspect of it. I don't have a problem with that. I am very sensitive. I can just feel when things are getting out of control and I go, 'Oh, you have to deal with this. Because you can die.' I've always sort of had that.

For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.