Drinking quotes

“I don't trust any bastard who doesn't drink. People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.”
Humphrey Bogart

“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.”
Humphrey Bogart

“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.”
Dean Martin

“Life is short, but marriage is long, so drink up, and it will make it go a hell of a lot faster.”
Shirley MacLaine - Katharine Richelieu

“I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.”
Rodney Dangerfield

“- Arthur Bach: Want a drink?
- Burt Johnson: I never drink. No one in my family ever drinks.
- Arthur Bach: That's great! You probably never run out of ice your whole life!”
Dudley Moore - Arthur Bach
Stephen Elliott - Burt Johnson

“I drink therefore I am.”
W.C. Fields

“- General Sternwood: How do you like your brandy, sir?
- Marlowe: In a glass.”
Charles Waldron - General Sternwood
Humphrey Bogart - Philip Marlowe

“Start 'em off with a single, then a double, then a triple, then back to a double, and back to a single. You want 'em drunk enough to get their credit card then sober enough to sign the check.”
Jennifer Lopez - Ramona

“- Helen St. James: There must be a reason why you drink, Don? The right doctor could find it.
- Don Birnam: Look, I'm way ahead of the right doctor. I know the reason. The reason is me - what I am. Or, rather, what I'm not. What I wanted to become and didn't.
- Helen St. James: What is it you want to be so much that you're not?
- Don Birnam: A...” (continue) (continue reading)
Jane Wyman - Helen St. James
Ray Milland - Don Birnam

“- Don Birnam: It's too late. I wouldn't know how to start!
- Helen St. James: The only way to start is to stop!”

Ray Milland - Don Birnam
Jane Wyman - Helen St. James

“- Don Birnam: Do you ever lay in your bed looking at the window? A little daylight's coming through and you start to wonder. Is it getting lighter? Is it getting darker? Is it dawn or is it dusk? That's a terrifying problem, Nat. Because, if its dawn, you're dead! The bars are closed. The liquor stores aren't open until nine o'clock and you...” (continue) (continue reading)
Ray Milland - Don Birnam
Howard Da Silva - Nat

“- Wick Birnem: Trees and grass and sweet cider, buttermilk and water from that well that's colder than any old...
- Don Birnam: Wait, please! Why this emphasis on liquids? Very dull liquids!”
Phillip Terry - Wick Birnam
Ray Milland - Don Birnam

“- Don Birnam: Just give me another drink.
- Nat: Mr. Birnam, this is the morning?
- Don Birnam: That's when you need it most - in the morning. Haven't you learned that yet? At night this stuff's a drink. In the morning, it's medicine.”
Ray Milland - Don Birnam
Howard Da Silva - Nat

“- Frank Hamer: You in good spirits?
- Maney Gault: Pretty polite way of asking if I’m drinking.”
Kevin Costner - Frank Hamer
Woody Harrelson - Maney Gault

“- Commodus: Father thinks too much.
- Livius: There is much for a Roman to think of these days.
- Commodus: Why Livius, for a moment that honest warrior's face of yours took on the... philosopher's look. Let's not think, let's drink.”
Christopher Plummer - Commodus
Stephen Boyd - Livius

“- Jack: Verge?
- Verge: I'm here, Jack.
- Jack: I don't feel so good Verge. There's a sour taste in my mouth.
- Verge: You want me to show you the way to the next whisky bar?”
Matt Dillon - Jack
Bruno Ganz - Verge

“- Bisbee Marshal: Alex, have you been drinking this morning or not?
- Alex Potter, town drunk: Marshal, you know I never touch a drop until the stroke of noon.”
Ford Rainey - Bisbee Marshal
Henry Jones - Alex Potter

“I don't drink wine during the day. Not even a little. Otherwise, the rest of the day is an apology.”
Angie Dickinson

“How about you slip into something more comfortable, like a few drinks and some chinese food.”

Raymond Burr - Harry Prebble

“Miles, I fell down. I'm old. Shit happens, get the whiskey.”
Jeff Bridges - Father Daniel Flynn

“- Ramon: How you doin', papo?
- Jack: How am I doing? I'm doing all right if I can get a fucking drink.”
Anthony Ramos - Ramon
Bradley Cooper - Jack

“I choose to drink! And I blame myself! I am happy to! And you know why? Because I choose to drink! I got an ex-wife and a son I never talk to! And you know why? Because I choose to drink!”
Denzel Washington - Whip Whitaker

“- Carson: You're at a party and your date offers you an alcoholic drink, do you A, politely refuse and ask for a soft drink?
- Malaina: Or B, get knee walking drunk and let him go to third base.”
Phoebe Cates - Carson
Bridget Fonda - Melaina

“- Sam Brenner: Are you OK?
- Violet Van Patten: I'm sitting in my closet and drinking chardonnay from a sippy cup. Do I look ok?
- Sam Brenner: I'm gonna say no.”
Adam Sandler - Brenner
Michelle Monaghan - Violet