Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Quotes

My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'

Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead

• Drinking
• Juice
• Social Life

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• When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Money
  • Done
  • Freedom

• I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whatever. I'm a seasoned athlete, an endurance athlete, and I'm always working out.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Athlete

• We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Live
  • Society
  • Me

• Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Greatness
  • Drinking
  • Vices

• I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Social
  • Social Life

• I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Live
  • Country
  • City

• I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Think
  • Suffering

• It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Parents

• If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Drinking

• What's drinking?A mere pause from thinking!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Thinking
  • Drinking

• To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Up
  • High
  • Drinking

• I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • People
  • School
  • Friends

• Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years ago - my Brazilian-born, French-speaking, wine-worshipping, tripe-consuming, uncomplaining traveler of a sweetheart.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Important
  • Perfect
  • Wine

• When you're drinking from a creek, it's not a good news story. When you don't have food for a baby, it's not a good news story.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • Good
  • Food
  • Baby

• I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on 'SNL,' and I sat in the corner drinking coffee and talking to Akiva Schaffer about what aspect ratio he was going to shoot 'Hot Rod' in. Like, that's what we talk about.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Coffee
  • Lonely
  • Drinking

• My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Women
  • Parents
  • Drinking

• I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Today
  • Drinking
  • Beer

• I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.

  

  Bruce McCulloch
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Evil

• Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Knowing
  • Places
  • Juice

• There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Black

• He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

  

  Publilius Syrus
  • Fear

• You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.

  

  Virginia Euwer Wolff
  • Wonder
  • Feelings
  • Sorry

• I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist, but of all the things I investigated, that seems to make the most sense to me.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Real

• My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Drinking
  • Juice
  • Social Life