Liza Minnelli Quotes

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.

I'd go and get really drunk somewhere ... in the street. Pass out somewhere and sleep in the gutter.

I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.

It's amazing how low you go to get high.

And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.

Yeah, she was hitting me hard. She was drunk and she was hitting me hard.

I think I bought into that whole rock n' roll lifestyle, and all that does in the end is kill ya. So I don't recommend it to anyone.

Only the few times I've been to so-called treatment centers, which were a complete waste of money and useless. I didn't know what I was doing at the time, because I was always drunk when I checked in.

For my most of my career I've been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.

I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.

I would drink and drink and then at 3 o'clock in the morning take anything that was put in front of me. And I'd sometimes be disappointed when conventional things were put in front of me. Like, I'd do a line of something and be disappointed to find it was just cocaine.

A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

I wanna die young and sell my soul, use up all your drugs and make me come.

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

When I was doing drugs and alcohol, I thought I'll have a drink and a line of this and I'll smoke this. I didn't go, 'Then I'm going to go out and get drunk, come back strangle my wife and wake up in jail on charges of attempted murder,' but that's what happened. I'm not telling people what to do. If they can enjoy doing it and they get on with it and they can handle it fine, but don't involve me. I'm lucky to be alive; you're playing with Russian roulette.

It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.