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I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

— Billy Joel

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✓Similar Perspectives

Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it.

— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

— Gary Oldman

What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

— Ron Wood

People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.

— Tom Arnold

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

— Jack Dee

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

— William Perry

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

— Ron White

I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove I'm still a nutcase.

— Steve-O

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

— Daniel Baldwin