102 Movie Quotes about Addiction (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

Updated: Apr 30, 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.

51 Got a cigarette? - No, I quit. Can't afford it.

Dean Martin as Sgt. Puccinelli in At War with the Army (1950)

52 When you can't borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out. You light a match.

Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in Goodfellas

53 Beware: Any officer apprehending a suspected marijuana addict should use all necessary force immediately.

Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

54 Begum and bejabbers, man. You can't jug a junkie for shooting soap.

Telly Savalas as Lt. "Theo" Kojak in Kojak

55 The worst thing about these pushers getting these children addicted to this new smack is that these children are orphans, and orphans don't have parents.

Michael Jai White as Black Dynamite in Black Dynamite

56 Heroin addiction may explain your actions, but it does not excuse them.

Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996)

57 Now we have him down to two drinks a day. Soon we'll have him down to no drinks a day.

Ronald Colman as Beauregard Bottomley in Champagne for Caesar

58 Insane asylum. -Too much of this night-life put him there. And this too...

Quote from Destination Freedom

59 Man, that first day of sobriety sucked. And I realized something. I was a real irritable guy when I wasn't smoking marijuana.

Dave Chappelle as Thurgood Jenkins in Half Baked

60 You haven't switched from liquor to dope, by any chance, have you, Dexter?

Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (1940)