I listened to a clip someone had put up of me singing ‘I Am What I Am’ in the musical ‘La Cage aux Folles.’ I thought I was absolutely dreadful. It’s like when you see photos of yourself at parties – at the time you thought you looked so cool and glamorous but you just look a bit drunk.
I think I misunderstood the following in the footsteps bit, in a few of my early drinking years. I’d take any form of being compared to Dad as flattery. So if I fell off a stool or smashed up a TV set just because I was drunk, and somebody in the bar went ‘Hey, man, that was just like Bonzo!’ I would be really happy.
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it’s a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it’s a much harder schedule because you’ve got to do it eight times a week and you’ve got to do it good eight times a week and with different kinds of audiences who are cold or drunk or tired, whatever it is.
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
It never occurred to me that I’d be a musician. I was just drunk on music, jamming with friends, chilling out with lot of music around.
What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.
Advertisers don’t want to be ignored, and they are drunk on our data, which is what Google and other large networks are really selling. The ads are almost a by-product; what companies really want to know is what antiperspirant a woman of 25-34 is most likely to purchase after watching ‘House of Cards.’
After the rise of Thatcherism, the smashing of the trade unions, and the post-cold war sense that any alternative to free-market capitalism was permanently discredited, you can see why the wealthy felt drunk on the sense of eternal victory.
You don’t need preparations for a family gathering. We have one almost every night where we meet, laugh, get drunk and come back home. We’re one family that’s happy among ourselves.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Does my character hate Bree? Well, let’s just put it this way. Bree hasn’t seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!
In the Children’s Zoo, Enrichment meant presenting the goats with a trash can smeared with peanut butter or dangling keys at the end of a broomstick in front of the cow. The goats would knock their heads around the inside of the can and emerge giddy, peanut butter drunk.
Not drunk is he who from the floor – Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
We would not have ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ without drunk brides and grooms falling into cakes.
I think Sweden is known for people being a bit more quiet than other cultures, and I guess it’s a mixture: shyness and leaving room for other people to talk. Of course, when people get drunk, all of that disappears.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Me, I’d prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.
I don’t sit around going, ‘What is the matter with me? What do I have to do to get a hit?’ And I don’t also sit home and listen to my record every day and get drunk and go, ‘Wow, this is great.’
I got married, had two kids, watched a lot of football, drunk a lot of pints, etc.
Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone’s drunk all the time.
If you like to read, sometimes it’s interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet… Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Even when a drunk guy, a program director, was slurring his words and telling me what to do with my career, I didn’t react to him in a negative way. You kind of have to joke back with them to put them in their place.
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
I was walking downtown and the drunk tank stopped and picked me up… I was like, ‘Wait a minute here fellas, there’s a misunderstanding. I’m not drunk. I have cerebral palsy.’ They were like, ‘That’s a pretty big word for a drunk.’
The Orioles’ Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.
If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, ‘You’ve been drunk on money,’ they’re not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they’d be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we’ve been, and ‘The Great Gatsby’ can provide that explanation.
My uncle was the town drunk – and we lived in Chicago.
The audience loves us! They buy out all our shows and really enjoy themselves but the press keeps right on bombin’ us. We thought at first it was because our music was too Texan, maybe too different for East coast people to relate to. But anyone can relate to bein’ drunk or missin’ your woman.
You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he’ll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat, and we will come into that party and just rip it up.
The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it’s so straightforward and simple. If the audience don’t laugh, you didn’t do your job. I’ve had some audiences where I didn’t care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid.
I’m not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.
I try not to drink too much because when I’m drunk, I bite.
One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
I think if you’re fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk… why do that? I don’t understand how some people would want fame so bad that they’d go out and get negative attention to earn it.
Our challenge is to stop people from driving drunk. Punishing them afterwards doesn’t bring back the victim or make the family feel better. The idea is to stop the DWI before it happens.
I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.
I think the more you party and the more you get drunk, the more your soul starts to evaporate, and eventually, you’re just a husk. So you have to go to the gym and build your soul up again.
When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.
Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn’t have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.
That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
It’s just so weird that some people recognize me from TV and then other people say, ‘Get away from me, you drunk!’
The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
Judges make tough decisions on child abuse, divorce, property disputes, drunk driving, domestic violence and other issues that should be free from politics.
I’ve never been drunk. I’ve never even had a beer.
I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
I simply don’t know how to act as if I am drunk.
