Chevy Chase Quotes

Well, I’ll never have to talk about crap like dope addiction again.

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.

Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.

I could never afford to be in a position where I could do something stupid, so I gave up drinking.

I've never done drugs in my life.

I'm anti-drugs, 100 percent. I don't like drugs or alcohol. I never did either of the two, and I don't plan on it.

Yoga is how I got sober.

I'm drug-free. I don't drink.

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

I'm very fond of drugs.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

I don't drink. I don't do drugs.

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.