Addiction quotes

“- Helen Sinclair: I haven't had a drink since New Year's Eve.
- Sid Loomis: You're talking Chinese New Year's.
- Helen Sinclair: Naturally. Still, that's two days, Sid! You know how long that is for me?”
Dianne Wiest - Helen Sinclair
Harvey Forbes Fierstein - Sid Loomis

“The only way that patch is going to help me is if I roll it and smoke it.”

Susan Barnes - Constance

“You know, I developed alcoholism early on, actually.”
Andrew McCarthy - Cecil Sweeney

“- Larry Levy: I'll be there right after my AA meeting.
- Griffin Mill: Oh Larry, I didn't realise you had a drinking problem.
- Larry Levy: Well I don't really, but that's where all the deals are being made these days.”
Peter Gallagher - Larry Levy
Tim Robbins - Griffin Mill

“- Insp. Walter Cobb: I can appreciate your feelings for McClane. But believe me, the jerk isn't worth it. He's stepped on so many toes in this department, by this time next month he's gonna be a security guard. His own wife wants nothing to do with him, and he's about two steps shy of becoming a full-blown alcoholic.
- John McClane: One step,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Larry Bryggman - Insp. Walter Cobb
Bruce Willis - John McClane

“I'm a junkie, I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle. But it just didn't pay off. You know, you don't see my kind of people. Because my kind of people don't beg dope, they go out and get it.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“I am reaching the point where I would kill someone for the nicotine under their fingernails.”
Ellen Barkin - Annette Atkins

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

“- Rosalie: I don't like having drug addicts in my house!
- Nadja: Oh no, Rosalie. Don't think of them as drug addicts. Think of them as killers.”
Tracey Ullman - Rosalie
Joan Plowright - Nadja

“Here is what it think of lottery... It's like, when you play the lottery, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose... But it's better than using drugs or alcohol - Because when you use drugs and alcohol, especially drugs, you always lose.”
Mark Borchardt - Filmmaker

“- Claire: You must be somebody who's always on the lookout for a new way to fuck up.
- Dr. Eugene Sands: Why is it that you always find me so objectionable?
- Claire: Other than the fact that you're a drug addict and the only patients you treat are criminals?
- Dr. Eugene Sands: You mean your associates? I'm not a drug addict. I take drugs to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Angelina Jolie - Claire
David Duchovny - Dr. Eugene Sands

“You're right, I'm on drugs. I'm a junkie, you know, I mainline, I freebase, I put cocaine on my cornflakes...”
Anthony Edwards - Jonathan?

“I could never live off lemonade and candy.”
Megan Follows - Clara

“Now I see, good lord, how we must look from out there. Our addiction is evil. The propensity for this evil lies in our weakness before it. Kierkegaard was right, there is an awful precipice before us. But he was wrong about the leap, there's a difference between jumping and being pushed. You reach a point where you are forced to face your own...” (continue)(continue reading)
Lili Taylor - Kathleen Conklin

“None for me and none for him. We're A.A.”

Rita Rudner - Carol Benson

“It's a Saturday night thing when you feel cool like a gangster or a rockstar, just something to kill the boredom, you know? They call it a chippie, a small habit. It feels so good, you start doing it on Tuesdays... then Thursdays... then it's got you. Every wise ass punk on the block says it won't happen to them, but it does.”

Leonardo DiCaprio - Jim Carroll

“Preacher likes to set fire to churches, that's his trip. Unfortunately he does it when there are people inside.”
Jack Palance - Frank Hawkes

“- Jeff: It would suck if you had to go back to rehab.
- Bee-Bee: Yeah, it would suck big time. I'd kill myself first.
- Jeff: It was pretty bad, huh?
- Bee-Bee: It was like hell. With windows.”
Giovanni Ribisi - Jeff
Dina Spybey-Waters - Bee-Bee

“I don't want to butt into your business, but this psychiatrist, the guy you're going to, I think he's in worse shape than you are.”

Nick Nolte - Hoover

“- David Howard: Why didn't you tell me when we got married that you were this horrible gambling addict? It's like when you have a venereal disease, you tell somebody!
- Linda Howard: I've only gambled twice in my life. This was the second time.”
Albert Brooks - David Howard
Julie Hagerty - Linda Howard

“This family's like a drug, and we're all junkies.”
Vincent D'Onofrio - Charley

“- Veronica Roberts: I'd kill for a cigarette right now.
- Luc Deveraux: You'd kill someone for a cigarette?
- Veronica Roberts: No. It's an expression, a figure of speech. I wouldn't exactly kill someone for a cigarette. I'd hurt them real bad at this point, but I won't kill 'em.”
Ally Walker - Veronica Roberts
Jean-Claude Van Damme - Luc Deveraux