James Pinckney Miller Quotes

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

I was getting depressed, I was going out, having a few drinks and the worst thing you can do with depression is add alcohol to it.

I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

My manager said, "Don't use liquor as a crutch!" I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk.

I drink to forget I drink.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

It's funny, because when you tell people you've stopped drinking, there's an automatic reaction. People ask, 'Was it a lifestyle choice or were you waking up in a skip?'

It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.

I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.