Stephen Fry Quotes

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

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

Home Protection—protection against the tyranny of drink.

I went off the rails for a few years with drink and different things.

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

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

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

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.

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.

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

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

Okay, I've admitted to drinking too much. Okay, so I'm dealing with it.

One of my dearest friends is alive only because of AA. But it doesn't help a lot of people. And everyone is different, and everyone needs different kinds of treatments.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Friend of mine just told me he used to be a bad alcoholic. I calmed him down. Told him he was a good alcoholic just a horrible drinker.

Fred Jr. Trump was great. He was the most handsome person. He was a really smart guy, really, really smart guy. He had everything. But at a certain age he started drinking a little more, a little more, and ultimately it was a big problem, and he'd say don't ever, ever drink. And I'll tell what you, I never - I have never had a glass of alcohol.

I drink to forget I drink.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

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?