Luis Bunuel Quotes

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other; besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a single propensity.

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.

Vice is its own reward.

MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of 122. When asked the secret of her longevity, she replied: 'I laugh a lot.' Well you would, wouldn't you.

I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.

A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.

Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.

He who has good health is young.

Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have.

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

In the order named, these are the hardest to control - wine, women and song.

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

I drank, smoked and did drugs to get where I'm at.

I gotta quit smoking, doctor's orders, and the drinking, court orders.

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.

Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head.

Everybody is doing the best things possible to still healthy and to play as long as possible.

I never wanna have a time where I'm on the big lawn just sitting back smoking cigars and drinking lemonade. I wanna work forever. Until I die. I wanna die on the way to a show.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

My mom ate every piece of butter in the Midwest, she lived till she was 90. And my dad, he smoked, he drank - we finally just had to kill him.

I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.