8 Movie Quotes about Intoxication (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 1, 2025

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

1 You seem in fine fettle today. -I should be. I'm full of laudanum.

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

2 Here's what the Encyclopaedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless, volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars, and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms.

Peter Jones as The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

3 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)

4 Maybe he's gonna puke. He had too many beers.

Dave Thomas as Doug Mckenzie in Strange Brew (1983)

5 And the sale of all intoxicating and alcoholic drinks will cease. I mean it now!

John Wayne as Sean Thornton in The Quiet Man (1952)

6 If I take one more drink, I'll see a snake.

Shelley Winters as Dixie Evans in The Big Knife (1955)

7 The old gal is stewed to the eyebrows.

Groucho Marx as Mr. Hammer in The Cocoanuts (1929)

8 It intoxicates my soul with, with, uh... -Your eyes. -What? -Intoxicates my soul with your eyes. You've just lapsed into the lyrics of You Go to My Head. -I did? I apologize. -Never apologize for Cole Porter.

Herbert Lom as Inspector Charles Dreyfus in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

8 Movie Quotes about Intoxication (+ Sound Clips)

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