A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'
It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.
So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.
It's not a crime to get drunk.
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.
That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!
Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.
The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.
I'm not really the party person. I don't 'become myself' once I'm drunk. I don't use alcohol to be happy.
Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger?
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.'
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.
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
It pays to get drunk with the best people.
I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.
What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
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.
When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.
And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
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.
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.
My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.
My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie.
What people unfortunately relate to when they think of Alaska oil was when the Exxon Valdez went aground because of a captain that was drunk. But when you look to how we have been safely producing and moving Alaska's oil for decades, it is a track record that is enviable.
I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
The great security of all is to eat little and to drink nothing that intoxicates. He that eats till he is full is little better than a beast, and he that drinks till he is drunk is quite a beast.
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
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.
