Alcoholism Intervention Quotes

I refer to the fact, acknowledged now by all professionals in the field, that alcoholism as such is not a legal problem—it is a health problem.

I did a comedy with Al Franken about his character Stuart Smalley, which was really about alcoholism and addiction and codependency. It had some painful stuff in it. When we showed it to focus groups, some of them actually said, "If I want to see a dysfunctional family, I'll stay home."

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

Sometimes people say, do you want a drink? And I say, oh, I'd like to, but I'm a tragic alcoholic. I always say tragic. I'm a tragic alcoholic.

A number of U.S. colleges are going to start having dorms for alcoholics. I believe those are called dorms.

While we may have taken away some of the criminal element when we repealed prohibition, we certainly didn't solve the problem of alcoholism.