13 Movie Quotes about Alcoholism (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: July 9, 2025

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

1 Why would she have you meet her at a bar at 10:00 in the morning? -I just figured she was a raging alcoholic.

Quote from Dumb and Dumber

2 They're used to curious sights, which they attribute to alcoholic delusions.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

3 I saw him a couple of days ago, and is he on that bottle. If you want to find him, you better start looking in the saloons.

Quote from The Roaring Twenties (1939)

4 You went to work after the divorce, didn't you? -Well, yes, except for a brief interlude in a couple of alcoholic sanitariums.

Quote from The Philadelphia Story (1940)

5 Hey, what about an eye-opener? -My eyes are opened. You go ahead and get one if you want to though. -Yeah, I think I will. Excuse me, will you?

Quote from The Philadelphia Story (1940)

6 Humph. An alcoholic.

Quote from Dragon on Shaolin Tower

7 Though your brother is not an alcoholic yet, I can tell you, as a nurse, that it won't be long.

Frances Dee as Betsy Connell in I Walked with a Zombie

8 What's so wrong about being drunk? -Ask a glass of water.

Quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

9 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)

10 Yeah. I was sittin' here eatin' my muffin, drinkin' my coffee replayin' the incident in my head when I had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity.

Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction