Craig Ferguson Quotes

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.

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

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.

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

It's better to take sobriety with you when you work.

I was probably born an alcoholic.

'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.

But she told me she was never going to drink again.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.