25 Movie Quotes about Alcoholism with Audio

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

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

Adam West as Bruce Wayne - Batman; Batman in Batman (1966)

2 What you have to do is change your habits. -Yeah? Who you been talking to? -Mrs. Dugan. She's an expert. She had three husbands. They all died of alcohol. -She's no expert, she's a carrier.

Rodney Dangerfield as Monty Capuletti in Easy Money (1983)

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

Simon Jones as Arthur Dent; David Dixon as Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

4 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)

5 I hadn't any connections except for an uncle who's in the roofing business in Wilmington. He wasn't much good though. He was inclined to get drunk. Still is. -We had an uncle like that, but he keeps off roofs.

Cary Grant as Johnny Case; Katharine Hepburn as Linda Seton in Holiday (1938)

6 The leper is back. Hide your liquor.

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

7 Listen, I can pick an alky with one eye shut. You're an alky... You'll come back. They all do. Him, for instance, shows up every month, just like the gas bill.

Quote from The Lost Weekend (1945)

8 And out there, in that great big concrete jungle, I wonder how many others are like me. Poor bedeviled guys, on fire with thirst. Such comical figures to the rest of the world, as they stagger blindly towards another binge, another bender, another spree.

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

9 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)

10 If we let you guys go home alone a lot of you don't go home. You just hit the nearest bar and bounce right back again. What we call the Quick Richochet.

Quote from The Lost Weekend (1945)