alcoholic Quotes

The alcoholic suffers from a disease.

My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.

I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.

Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life!.

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

I went public with the alcoholism, very early on... the early '70s. Mercedes McCambridge, the actress, I think was the first recognizable person that went before Congress and talked about it, and I thought that was a good idea, to take some of the stigma away from it and say "Normal, average people can fall prey to it." So it's been public for me. I did a movie about an alcoholic. And today, you're nobody unless you've been to rehab. It seems like everybody has some kind of an addiction.

I became a terrible drunk or alcoholic - or a good one depending on your point of view.

I was probably born an alcoholic.

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.

Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

I'm not an alcoholic.

I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.

I am an alcoholic. It took me a long time to admit that to myself. It took me a long time to admit it to my family, but I am.

If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.

I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

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.

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