Addiction Quote by Joe Eszterhas

For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't…

— Nikki Sixx

I went through a period when I was addicted to gambling. It was a compulsion that I struggled to get to grips with. By…

— John Virgo

Facing my addiction was one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life.

— Lynda Carter

For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things…

— Rob Roberge

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

— Stephen King

I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the things that…

— Maia Szalavitz

Addiction is tricky. For example: a man who quit smoking for 11 years spent 15 seconds in an elevator with a man smoking a…

— Nate

Addiction took everything away from everything away fromme ..but left me with my burning heart..and inside that burning heart the desire to stop using

— Shiv Adhikari

I got addicted to the addiction book. I actually started developing all the addictions of the people in the book that I was writing…

— Susan Shapiro

I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me to, so I…

— Mark Boone Junior

I didn't know I was addicted. Until I tried to stop.

— Leslie

A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco - and…

— Maia Szalavitz