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

Updated: Mar 2, 2026

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 Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.

Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey in Airplane (1980)

12 What can I say? I'm... I'm a drug addict. I really am. Cocaine, pills. Whatever it is, I'll _ing do it. Now that's the truth.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street

13 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)

14 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)

15 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)

16 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

17 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

18 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)

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

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

20 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