66 Movie Quotes about Addiction (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Oct 8, 2025

Memorable quotes about addiction, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 I saw him a couple of days ago, and is he on that bottle. If you want to find him, you better start looking in the saloons.

James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties (1939)

12 And finally, sad to say, we need a hooligan. Most of these fellas are drug addicts. They're a no-good lot, or they wouldn't be hooligans.

Sterling Hayden as Dix Handley in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

13 Begbie didn't do drugs, either. He just did people. That's what he got off on. His own sensory addiction.

Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996)

14 When I go home, people ask me, Hey, why do you do it, man? Why? You some kind of war junkie? I won't say a goddamn word.

Eric Bana as Hoot in Black Hawk Down

15 Poor rummy. How did he get it? -Fell out of a window reaching for a bottle of whisky.

Steve Martin as Rigby Reardon in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

16 You went to work after the divorce, didn't you? -Well, yes, except for a brief interlude in a couple of alcoholic sanitariums.

Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord; Cary Grant as C.K. Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

17 Opium, that can get to be a habit. -Why, absolutely, an addiction.

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

18 Though your brother is not an alcoholic yet, I can tell you, as a nurse, that it won't be long.

Frances Dee as Betsy Connell in I Walked with a Zombie

19 Yeah, sort of an incentive kind of a deal, huh? -Aw, that's good. -Yeah, incentives are important. Learned that in rehab.

Kurt Russell as Captain Ron in Captain Ron

20 You smoke too much. I've noticed. Only frustrated people smoke too much, and only lonely people are frustrated.

Rita Hayworth as Gilda Mundson in Gilda (1946)

66 Movie Quotes about Addiction (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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