25 Movie Quotes about Alcoholism (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Feb 2, 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.

11 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)

12 The leper is back. Hide your liquor.

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

13 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)

14 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.

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

15 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.

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

16 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)

17 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

18 Henri was a worthless alcoholic, and I abhor sloppy drunks.

Jack Cassidy as Miles Mellough in The Eiger Sanction

19 Mother left when I was a baby, and my father probably drank himself to death by now.

Van Heflin as Sam Masterson in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

20 He wants to be alone with that bottle of his. It's all he gives a hang about.

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