Joe E. Lewis Quotes

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.

I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.

Abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

I'm not an alcoholic.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.

I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

I do partake in a couple of drinks now and again, but I've never drank to feel alive.

I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.

My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.