“I want a drink. I want a drink all the time. Sometimes I wake up in the morning, my eyes pop open and I think I gotta have a drink. A beer, a Bloody Mary, whatever. Even now, and I don't know why. I haven't had a drink in three years.”

Alec Baldwin - Dave Robicheaux

“- Priest: If you begin drinking again, what will happen?
- Dave Robicheaux: I would lose everything.
- Priest: But knowing this, knowing that you would lose everything, you would lose your wife, your business, and your self-respect, still, you want to drink.
- Dave Robicheaux: Yes I do.
- Priest: You're absolved of your sins. Go in peace.”
Christopher Kriesa - Priest
Alec Baldwin - Dave Robicheaux

“I picked a hell of a day to quit drinkin'.”
Randy Quaid - Russell Casse

“If I were you I'd give AA some thought. Alcoholism is a disease, you know.”

Bob Balaban - Elliott Webley

“- Don Birnam: It's too late. I wouldn't know how to start!
- Helen St. James: The only way to start is to stop!”

Ray Milland - Don Birnam
Jane Wyman - Helen St. James