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

Updated: Jan 6, 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 That Ernie. Always begging cigarettes. -I can't afford to buy 'em! -Why not? Don't you get paid like the rest of us?

Jackie Robinson as Himself in The Jackie Robinson Story

52 Cigarette? -No, thanks. I don't smoke. -Yes, I guess smoking is going to make a man look effeminate before long.

Mae West as Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (1933)

53 Oh, man, you made me miss the woman. She's gone. -Man, I did you a good favor, brother. -Did me a favor? -That's worse than dope and alcohol. That white woman, that's man's trick. That's worse than alcohol.

Drew Bundini Brown in The Greatest (1977)

54 Why do we never see you? -I have all I need here. Drink and drugs and no friends. I've had too many friends.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

55 For this poor, stricken, shadow of a man, there was only one relief. -Another whiskey, Fred. A large one. -Make it two.

Mervyn Johns as Walter Craig in Dead of Night (1945)

56 Well, let's say that a man smokes 20 cigarettes a day. That means that 20 times a day he has to open this box and 20 times a day he has to listen to Ochi Tchornya. It's a perfectly terrible idea.

James Stewart as Alfred Kralik in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

57 I think people who like to smoke candy and listen to cigarettes will love it.

James Stewart as Alfred Kralik in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

58 He wants to be alone with that bottle of his. It's all he gives a hang about.

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

59 Why kid ourselves? He's a hopeless alcoholic.

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

60 What I'm trying to say is I'm not a drinker. I'm a drunk. They had to put me away once. -He went to a cure. -Which didn't take.

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

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

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