Raul Julia Quotes

If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

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

I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

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

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

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.

I be getting high just to balance out the lows.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

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

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

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

Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.

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

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

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

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

I don’t care if it’s dog piss. It makes me feel better.

I'd go into the pub and start crying even before I'd had my first drink.

There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.

I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.

I started doing cocaine to get through interviews, 'cause people wanted to know a lot about my personal life and I wasn't prepared for a 60 Minutes interview every time. Doing bumps I was able to get through the day, but then I would smoke weed to calm me down - it was the only way I could get through the day without people noticing I was doing it.