Roger Ebert Quotes

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

I think I was an alcoholic. There are all these grey areas about what makes you an alcoholic - you can't cope without it, you stop caring about jobs and relationships, or you just binge.

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.

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

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

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.

It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

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

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

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

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road.

I would never have discovered alcohol.