Alcoholic Quotes

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.
Ron White

Work, True, Saying

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
Dean Koontz

Father, Him, Sometimes

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!
Gerard Way

Best, Friend, Coffee

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
Mercedes McCambridge

Time, Wait, Alcohol

I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.
Don Young

Down, Put, Stop

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.
Neil Young

Time, Song, Kinda

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.
Glenn Beck

Family, Live, Step

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
Dylan Thomas

Someone, Drinks

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.
Chester Bennington

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.
Dick Van Dyke

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.
Gary Oldman

Love, Good, Anger

It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very ill - he was an alcoholic - so there were a lot of things that built up for me. And because I was going to a Catholic school in a small German town, a lot of it was suppressed. I was angry and didn't know how to get it out.
Diane Kruger

School, Angry, Father

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

Father, Hatred, Once

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.
Mercedes McCambridge

Death, Live, Human

Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.
Carre Otis

Control, Before, Disease

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
Ozzy Osbourne

Same, Kids, Addict

I vowed that I'd never allow any man to control me or to be an alcoholic or anything like that around me, because I don't want my children seeing that.
Nicki Minaj

Children, Control, Around

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.
Paul Gascoigne

Try, Accept, Disease

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.
Maurice Gibb

Trust, Wife, Children

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.
Julie Walters

Life, Famous, Early

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.
Kevin Bacon

Done, Before, Cute

If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic.
Paul Lynde

Become, Celebrity, Hadn

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
Marguerite Duras

Nature, Woman, Serious

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
Mercedes McCambridge

Career, Acting, Against

What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.
Ron Wood

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

War, Single, Impossible

The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

War, Since, Evidence

Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Country, Working, Fighting

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Year, Dollar, Quantity

The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Power, Result, Direct

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