Tom Arnold Quotes

When I got sober, that was 1990.

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

I understand the world of addiction. I get it. I know how fleeting recovery can be.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

I'm totally clean and sober my whole life.

Anybody that's not supportive of me staying sober obviously has to go. But on the other hand, there are not really a lot of people who don't want me to stay sober. I was a nightmare.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.

I can't emphasise enough how grateful I am to have come upon sobriety.

I trust my recovering peers completely. I'll occasionally look sideways at them because they're addicts but it would break my heart and surprise me to find out that any of these people were lying. Still, addiction is cunning and baffling and you never know.

My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

I didn't check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place - I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy and stuff like that, but it's good. I'm great. I feel fine.

It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great.

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.

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

Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

Well, I'm still here. Didn't have to go to rehab, and I'm not broke.

When the addict gets recovery, his family gets recovery, right?

I am a recovering alcoholic.

'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've triumphed over addiction.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

There were times when rehab and the halfway house were very, very tough, but I never felt that I wanted to leave.