Artie Lange Quotes

I remember one night in Memphis, I'd come out of a blackout, and I didn't know where I was. I'm feeling through the darkness - I was asleep in the middle of a freeway. I went up to this car in the darkness, and it was a cop car.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

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

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

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

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

I don't know if I was born an alcoholic, but I was definitely born anxious.

My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.

I've dealt with a lot of physical pain, with a lot of emotional pain; anybody's who's ever been an alcoholic has handled both of those in extreme.

I did a bit of running away when my mam passed away. I didn't go back to work; I started drinking quite a lot, and I know how damaging that can be.

My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.

I think in a lot of ways, 'The Shining' is about alcoholism and 'Doctor Sleep' is actually about recovery. They go together pretty well that way.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.

As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.

Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spilled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next.

Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

I had to stop drinking alcohol, because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.

Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.