Drinking quotes

“Can I get a normal-sized beer for a normal-sized guy?”
Patrick Gallagher - Drunk Guy at Bar

“- Brandon: I've always thought that it was out of character for David to drink anything as corrupt as Whiskey.
- Phillip: Out of character for him to be murdered, too.”
John Dall - Brandon
Farley Granger - Phillip

“- General Sternwood: How do you like your brandy, sir?
- Marlowe: In a glass.”
Charles Waldron - General Sternwood
Humphrey Bogart - Philip Marlowe

“Start 'em off with a single, then a double, then a triple, then back to a double, and back to a single. You want 'em drunk enough to get their credit card then sober enough to sign the check.”
Jennifer Lopez - Ramona

“- Helen St. James: There must be a reason why you drink, Don? The right doctor could find it.
- Don Birnam: Look, I'm way ahead of the right doctor. I know the reason. The reason is me - what I am. Or, rather, what I'm not. What I wanted to become and didn't.
- Helen St. James: What is it you want to be so much that you're not?
- Don Birnam:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jane Wyman - Helen St. James
Ray Milland - Don Birnam

“- 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

“- Don Birnam: Do you ever lay in your bed looking at the window? A little daylight's coming through and you start to wonder. Is it getting lighter? Is it getting darker? Is it dawn or is it dusk? That's a terrifying problem, Nat. Because, if its dawn, you're dead! The bars are closed. The liquor stores aren't open until nine o'clock and you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ray Milland - Don Birnam
Howard Da Silva - Nat

“- Wick Birnem: Trees and grass and sweet cider, buttermilk and water from that well that's colder than any old...
- Don Birnam: Wait, please! Why this emphasis on liquids? Very dull liquids!”
Phillip Terry - Wick Birnam
Ray Milland - Don Birnam

“- Don Birnam: Just give me another drink.
- Nat: Mr. Birnam, this is the morning?
- Don Birnam: That's when you need it most - in the morning. Haven't you learned that yet? At night this stuff's a drink. In the morning, it's medicine.”
Ray Milland - Don Birnam
Howard Da Silva - Nat

“- Frank Hamer: You in good spirits?
- Maney Gault: Pretty polite way of asking if I’m drinking.”
Kevin Costner - Frank Hamer
Woody Harrelson - Maney Gault

“- Commodus: Father thinks too much.
- Livius: There is much for a Roman to think of these days.
- Commodus: Why Livius, for a moment that honest warrior's face of yours took on the... philosopher's look. Let's not think, let's drink.”
Christopher Plummer - Commodus
Stephen Boyd - Livius

“- Jack: Verge?
- Verge: I'm here, Jack.
- Jack: I don't feel so good Verge. There's a sour taste in my mouth.
- Verge: You want me to show you the way to the next whisky bar?”
Matt Dillon - Jack
Bruno Ganz - Verge

“- Bisbee Marshal: Alex, have you been drinking this morning or not?
- Alex Potter, town drunk: Marshal, you know I never touch a drop until the stroke of noon.”
Ford Rainey - Bisbee Marshal
Henry Jones - Alex Potter

“I don't drink wine during the day. Not even a little. Otherwise, the rest of the day is an apology.”
Angie Dickinson

“How about you slip into something more comfortable, like a few drinks and some chinese food.”

Raymond Burr - Harry Prebble

“Miles, I fell down. I'm old. Shit happens, get the whiskey.”
Jeff Bridges - Father Daniel Flynn

“- Ramon: How you doin', papo?
- Jack: How am I doing? I'm doing all right if I can get a fucking drink.”
Anthony Ramos - Ramon
Bradley Cooper - Jack

“- Carson: You're at a party and your date offers you an alcoholic drink, do you A, politely refuse and ask for a soft drink?
- Malaina: Or B, get knee walking drunk and let him go to third base.”
Phoebe Cates - Carson
Bridget Fonda - Melaina

“- Sam Brenner: Are you OK?
- Violet Van Patten: I'm sitting in my closet and drinking chardonnay from a sippy cup. Do I look ok?
- Sam Brenner: I'm gonna say no.”
Adam Sandler - Brenner
Michelle Monaghan - Violet

“- Lawson Russell: Drink, detective?
- Clifford Dubose: Nah. Never touch it. Makes me happy.”
Cuba Gooding Jr. - Lawson Russell
Tom Berenger - Clifford Dubose

“See these guys? Pete, Rizzo and Sammy B.? They work all day and drink all night for 40 fucking years. Two weeks out of the year, they take a vacation and go to the Cape. What do they do? They drink all day, they drink all night. If we don't step it up, we're gonna wind up just like them.”
Michael Rapaport - Paul Kirkwood

“Let's drink first. Perhaps pretty words will follow.”
Claudette Colbert - Cleopatra

“- Zack: Why do they call you Crawl?
- Crawl: Because that's how I used to get home my freshmen year.”
Patrick Renna - Zack Warner
Pauly Shore - Crawl

“C'mon, what're you a camel or somethin'? I gotta have a sip.”
Lainie Kazan - Leona Bloom

“- Sundog: Take it easy, kid, take it easy. You have a lot of potential for a rookie, but damn you're ragged.
- Constable Alvin Adams: What do you mean - ragged?
- Sundog: Look, if you're in a do-or-die contest for big stakes, you let the other guy get a head start on you. Take small swigs and hold your breath, huh? Then it looks like you're...” (continue)(continue reading)

Carl Weathers - Sundog
Andrew Stevens - Alvin