Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.
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LUCAS SUMANTRI When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write... JULIANA HATFIELD But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking. RICK SAVAGE I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's s... DAN HICKS I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking... JACK OSBOURNE Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often... MALCOLM COWLEY I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's off... HAMDI ULUKAYA I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drink... EDDIE VAN HALEN I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I neve... MARTINA NAVRATILOVA I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get dr... SAMMY HAGAR I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're l... CATE BLANCHETT I don't go out drinking and stuff like that. My friends say 'Just have one drink, JD.' I... JERMAIN DEFOE I'm a big kid. I love drinking chocolate milk. I'm not afraid to watch some cartoons once in... BILLY HORSCHEL I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records... MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO First of all, when I was making the decision, I never thought that Pittsburgh fans would want me bac... JAROMIR JAGR I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the hea... FREDDIE HUBBARD I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had po... DAVE GROHL I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and... JACK OSBOURNE When I was a freshman, I didn't have that much time for extra-curriculars, so I didn't do an... SHANLEY CASWELL In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing every... LAURE MANAUDOU Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican... LEE TREVINO I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was... CHARLIE ROSE I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull. PARIS HILTON I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take... KURT COBAIN I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat. OLIVER REED I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationsh... GABY HOFFMANN You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of ... ENRICO COLANTONI I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn'... MACAULAY CULKIN If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just ... CLEMENT FREUD I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped. MARTY ROBBINS I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I... VINCE VAUGHN Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about... MILOS FORMAN I actually didn't really go to college. I enrolled and never showed up. Being on a college campu... ADAM RODRIGUEZ Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going ... JASON BATEMAN I am awake, I might as well be drinking DAN THOMPSON I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick. FRANCES FARMER I've been drinking and using since I was 13. JACK OSBOURNE Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking. CASEY STENGEL I didn't anticipate the pressure. If I stated that I was staying away from alcohol, that's when I fe... LALA ALVAREZ My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I r... DENNIS FRANZ Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk someti... ANDREA CORR I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dat... KIESZA As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my song... DAVID BOWIE When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presenc... JIMMY WEBB I started thinking about the dangers of drinking on new year's eve. After that, I decided to stop t... ANONYMOUS I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I could... MAHESH BABU If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal... we can't mitigate that; we can't s... RUPERT MURDOCH I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an... ALBERT FINNEY I didn't have any sophistication. I didn't really have any great taste or anything like that... JIMMY IOVINE When I'm not shooting, I love going on adventures with friends. I love zip-lining through rainfo... MAX SCHNEIDER In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl... KEVIN MCKIDD I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death t... PLATON I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow. KINKY FRIEDMAN I admit I was drinking a Guinness . . . but I did not swallow. KINKY FRIEDMAN I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go th... STEVE GARVEY I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the w... LINDA RONSTADT Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to lea... MICHELLE OBAMA Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And... JACK OSBOURNE I don't have any rock star demeanor to me. I just can't pull that off. KINA GRANNIS I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easi... DEBRA WINGER I didn't have any friends. I was bullied. I didn't play sports. DACRE MONTGOMERY A few years back I was more a candidate for skid row bum than an Emmy. If I hadn't stopped drinking,... JOHN LARROQUETTE I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that ... BRUCE SUTTER That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments becau... JULIUS ERVING I won't be able to stop the drinking just like that but I've hopefully cut it in half and if you cut... ANDY FORDHAM I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortab... DAN HILL I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't ha... PETER CAPALDI Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit. WANDA JACKSON I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performe... ROB MCCLURE I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop fo... ROY BLUNT I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures tha... JAMES STEWART I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't. GARY NUMAN I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The di... TERESA PALMER I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do ... DAVID J. C. MACKAY While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate... GARY LUCAS When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offer... CHANDRA WILSON I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera. LARA FLYNN BOYLE Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin'... GREGORY HINES I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going. RODNEY DANGERFIELD Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times... W. C. FIELDS I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like gra... CALVIN KLEIN 'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'... CAITLIN HALE I didn't really experience any hardship like people tend to think of when they hear the words ... MIKE POSNER I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the oth... ANTHONY HOPKINS I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep. GEORGE BEST I was never a singer; I can't play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in... PATTI SMITH I was drinking coffee with nondairy creamer and you would think nondairy creamer is no milk. Well, t... DENISE BUNNING I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it. DANIEL S. LOEB I didn't have that typical high school experience of feeling ashamed of who I was. I once wore a... AYA CASH I didn't go to church all the time, just 'cause I was an antsy kid. MICHAEL KEATON Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking. RAKUL PREET SINGH I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves. FLEA
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