Quotes for All
Have this Chet Baker movie coming out and in that situation, I went down the rabbit hole studying Chet Baker and being obsessed with the period and the music and the relationships and the dynamic, and everything, drug addiction. There was so much I wanted to get at to kind of get at the truth. … Read more
[Jack Nash from The Andromeda Strain] was not in the original film, but he was kind of a Geraldo Rivera almost kind of reporter that had a drug addiction. We start the story in rehab, and then he gets the roots of the story. I loved him. Eric McCormack
A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do. Eric Hodgins
It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn’t recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober. Eminem
Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better Emile Coue
Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that’s where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang – in inverted commas – led me to the drug … Read more
I wasn’t involved in anything. I wasn’t out – you know, I know I wasn’t in ACT UP. I wasn’t with Larry Kramer. I wasn’t by his side. I wasn’t saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble … Read more
The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became – it’s become an addiction. I’m addicted to working. Elton John
For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of \”zero tolerance\” and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and … Read more
Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, ‘Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?’ Ellen Burstyn