Addiction Quotes

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize.

I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

I have an addiction to caffeine.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.

We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.