176 Movie Quotes about Alcohol (+ Sound Clips) - page 9

Updated: Apr 27, 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.

81 All right. Now tell me why you got drunk? -Because I couldn't get up and speak before people.

Barbara Stanwyck as Martha Ivers; Kirk Douglas as Walter O'Neil in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

82 He's drunk. He's been sitting here drinking all night. -Draw a chalk line and I'll walk it. Or I'll take a mental test, any question, like... what is my object in life?

Barbara Stanwyck as Martha Ivers; Kirk Douglas as Walter O'Neil in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

83 Water? You want water, you better go dunk your head in the horse trough out there. In here, we pour whiskey.

Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part III

84 Alcoholic content: 98 percent!

Jonathan Haze as Seymour Krelboined in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

85 How about some paint thinner? -No, that'll kill him. Anything else? -Hair tonic, forty percent alcohol. Fine.

Cornel Wilde as Leonard Diamond in The Big Combo (1955)

86 It hurts. -If you can move it, it's not broken. -But it hurts! -Take a drink. I took a drink, it still hurts. -Take another drink.

Lee Van Cleef as Fante in The Big Combo (1955)

87 You'll probably have to make a speech. -It's my plan to meet that situation by getting well plastered.

Myrna Loy as Milly Stephenson; Fredric March as Al Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

88 Perhaps it'd be a good idea if you just put that bottle right down here in front of me, hmm? Here, save yourself quite a number of trips.

Fredric March as Al Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

89 No. After four o'clock, I can't tell you anything about my son. -Why not after four o'clock? -Because, after tasting the wine all day, after four o'clock I can't remember my son, let alone tell you anything about him.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

90 Who's he talkin' to? -Nobody. This boy's a hardcore alkie.

David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight in Knight Rider (1982)