98 Movie Quotes about Addiction (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

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.

31 Or it maybe Sunday. That's the worst. No liquor stores at all. And you guys wouldn't open a bar, not until one o'clock. Why? Why, Nat? -Because we gotta go to church once in a while. That's why. -Yeah, when a guy needs it most.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam; Howard Da Silva as Nat in The Lost Weekend (1945)

32 Don's a little tight. Most people drink a little. A lot of them get tight once in a while. -Sure. The lucky ones who can take it or leave it. But then there are the ones who can't take it and leave it either.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam; Jane Wyman as Helen St. James in The Lost Weekend (1945)

33 You know, once I even got myself a gun and some bullets. I was gonna do it on my thirtieth birthday. Here are the bullets. The gun went for three quarts of whiskey. That other Don wanted us to have a drink first. He always wants us to have a drink first.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

34 Where am I? What is this place? -This? This is the Hangover Plaza. -What hospital is this? -Alcoholic Ward.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

35 Why did they put me in the Alcoholic Ward? -Are you kiddin'? We took a peek at your blood. Straight applejack. Ninety-six proof.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

36 If we let you guys go home alone a lot of you don't go home. You just hit the nearest bar and bounce right back again. What we call the Quick Richochet.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

37 Listen, I can pick an alky with one eye shut. You're an alky... You'll come back. They all do. Him, for instance, shows up every month, just like the gas bill.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

38 Come on. I need that liquor, I want it, I'm going to get it, understand. I'm going to walk out of here with that quart of rye, one way or another.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

39 You need this, Don. Drink it. I want you to drink it. I'll get you some more. I'll get you all you want. -What kind of talk is that? -It's just that I'd rather have you drunk than dead.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam; Jane Wyman as Helen St. James in The Lost Weekend (1945)

40 The only way to start is to stop. There is no cure besides just stopping.

Jane Wyman as Helen St. James in The Lost Weekend (1945)

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