W. C. Fields Quotes

For my most of my career I've been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

Treatment of alcohol addiction can take many forms.

I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

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

I am a recovering alcoholic.

I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

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

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no time, in all my waking time, that I didn't want a drink. I began to anticipate the completion of my daily thousand words by taking a drink when only five hundred words were written. It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words with a drink.

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.

I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.

I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, don't you? It's sad. I've lost more friends to AA than Liberace did to the virus. It's sad to see 'em go. You see a thirty day chip on your buddy's key ring, it's like seeing a toe tag on his cold, stiff corpse.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.