24 Movie Quotes about Alcoholism (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jan 6, 2026

Memorable quotes about alcoholism, selected from famous or less known movies 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.

Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas; Jeff Daniels as Harry Dunne in 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.

James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in 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.

Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord; Cary Grant as C.K. Dexter Haven in 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?

Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in 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.

Simon Jones as Arthur Dent; David Dixon as Ford Prefect in 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 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)

24 Movie Quotes about Alcoholism (+ Sound Clips)

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