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I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life. -- Mitch Hedberg
I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction. -- John Mayer
If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours. -- James Taylor
I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.' -- Samuel L. Jackson
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts. -- William S. Burroughs
I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict. -- Lindsay Lohan
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. -- Emile M. Cioran
Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? -- Clifford Stoll
Never leave home without a great gloss: Dior Addict Perfecto is one of my faves. -- Amber Le Bon
Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it. -- Eminem
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didnt want to see my kids do the same thing -- Ozzy Osbourne
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. -- Shirley Chisholm
I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it. -- Ralph Fiennes
There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices. -- Danny Sugerman
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you. -- Anna Quindlen
The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope. -- Russell Brand
No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work. -- Whitney Houston
To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing. -- Chris Prentiss
People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult. -- Keith Henson
Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs. -- Michael Badnarik
It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. -- Shirley Chisholm
I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby? -- Dustin Hoffman
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. -- Jean Cocteau
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
When the addict gets recovery, his family gets recovery, right? -- Nikki Sixx
I'm a TV addict, and I personally really enjoy reality TV. -- Christina Ricci
I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success. -- Lil Wayne
I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times. -- Nikki Sixx
I'm a green tea addict, though the occasional glass of red wine is nice, too. -- Shilpa Shetty
There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are. -- Daniel Baldwin
In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car. -- Ethan Hawke
If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available. -- Henry Rollins
I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak. -- Murray Bartlett
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. -- Hunter S. Thompson
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. -- Trent Reznor
I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life. -- Hunter S. Thompson
There's a fascinating school of thought that some women are relationship addicts. You get really strung out on a guy who's not returning your enthusiasm and tell yourself you're going to fix him and make him better, and of course it's impossible. -- Phoebe Snow
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. -- Tom Scholz
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war. -- John Ortberg
Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?' But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully. -- Will Self
I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict. -- Kurt Cobain
For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me. -- Daniel Baldwin
I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long. -- Adam Savage
I'm an addict for underwear. -- Jennifer Ellison
I was a functional addict. -- James Taylor
An addict never stops growing. Stupider. -- William S. Burroughs
I'm what they call the love addict! -- Zach Sobiech
I'm a food addict, that's my downfall. -- Valerie Bertinelli
stick at it like a benni addict -- Jack Kerouac
I'm a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it. -- Lisa Ling
I don't t drink coffee, but I'm a tea addict. -- Toks Olagundoye
When you're serious addict, you tend to lie a lot. -- Diamond Dallas Page
RIP Amy Winehouse. We lost a true heroin addict today. -- Norm MacDonald
Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict. -- George Bernard Shaw
Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait. -- George Bernard Shaw
I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery. -- J. J. Abrams
He was like chocolate-covered heroin, and I was an addict through and through. -- Darynda Jones
Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict? -- John Waters
I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life. -- Ozzy Osbourne
I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture. -- Jonathan Lethem
I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success -- Lil Wayne
So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again. -- Ken Thompson
I drink about 30 cups of tea a day. I'm a complete tea addict. -- Richard Branson
You don't have to be a drug addict to care for your mind. -- Demi Lovato
The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist. -- Tullian Tchividjian
I'm also a video game addict, so I'm always looking to support my addiction. -- Lucas Till
Talk of fighting Tyson is a little premature. I'm an addict and an alcoholic -- Michael Dokes
Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb. -- Anne Lamott
What are you -- some kind of addict? Is this where you come to... -- Peter Greenaway
I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. -- John Waters
I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine. -- Rob Ford
I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too. -- Louise Jameson
I'm just an addict, addicted to music Maybe it's a habit...I gotta use it. -- Rakim
My favorite game is Madden. That's it. I'm a Madden addict. I go at it. -- will.i.am
I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop. -- Gillian Flynn
I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy. -- John McCain
An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. -- Stella Adler
I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea. -- S. T. Joshi
The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict. -- Tom Robbins
I've played a heroin addict and a speed freak and dark characters throughout my career. -- Meg Ryan
The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things. -- Daniel Baldwin
I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs. -- Hugo Chavez
If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times. -- Russell Brand
And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it -- Black Thought
Once I was seated, I couldn't help people-watching. I'll admit it, I'm an addict from way back. -- James Patterson
Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California. -- Carrie Fisher
I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person. -- Daniel Baldwin
I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't. -- Stephen King
I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict. -- Salman Rushdie
My favorite splurge would be gluten-free pizza. Or I'm a total truffle addict so truffle mac and cheese. -- Patti Stanger
One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict. -- George Carlin
I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon. -- Rick Reilly
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. -- David Crosby
But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. -- Truman Capote
I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days. -- Mark Ronson
I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print. -- Annalena McAfee
Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us. -- Milton Friedman
I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots. -- Donatella Versace
I'm a sex addict. It's my cross to bear. It's a real disease with doctors and medicine and everything! -- Will Ferrell
Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating. -- Alanis Morissette
It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict. -- Howard Charles
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation. -- David Malpass
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. -- Elliott Chaze
I am a self-proclaimed "fitness addict," so I am one of those people who actually really, really enjoys working out. -- Jennifer Ashton
As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems. -- Russell Brand
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing. -- Ozzy Osbourne
I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict. -- Steve Earle
Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor. -- Peter Lynch
If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems. -- Mariel Hemingway
I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help. -- Glennon Melton
You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else. -- Marian Keyes
What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything. -- Steve Earle
The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief. -- Russell Brand
She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too. -- Christopher Isherwood
I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that. -- Kelly Osbourne
Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house. -- Demetri Martin

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