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

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.

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

Telly Savalas as Lt. "Theo" Kojak in Kojak

52 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

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

Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996)

54 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

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

Quote from Destination Freedom

56 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

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

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

58 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

59 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)

60 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)