165 Movie Quotes about Alcohol (+ Sound Clips) - page 11

Updated: Jan 6, 2026

Memorable quotes about alcohol, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

101 That's when you need it most, in the morning. Haven't you learned that yet? At night, this stuff's a drink. In the morning, it's medicine.

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

102 Is it dawn or dusk? That's a terrifying problem, Nat. Because if it's dawn, you're dead. The bars are closed and the liquor stores don't open till nine o'clock, and you can't last till nine o'clock.

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

103 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)

104 That's right, I did have two bottles, didn't I? I hid one of them. I've still got it. I'm a capitalist, Nat! I've got untapped reserves. I'm rich!

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

105 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)

106 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)

107 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)

108 I want a quart of rye. Quick. -Care if I take off my coat first? -No. No cracks, no questions. Just a quart of rye.

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

109 I told you I don't drink. -Oh, champagne's not drinking. That's the minimum of alcohol and the maximum of companionship.

David Niven as Sir Charles Lytton; Claudia Cardinale as Princess Dala in The Pink Panther (1963)

110 For this, sir, is the most potent weapon in war. The fighting spirit's in this bottle.

Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

165 Movie Quotes about Alcohol (+ Sound Clips) - page 11

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