16 Celebrity Quotes on Not Drinking

"I was, point blank, just drinking too much,” she said in August 2017. “"I got used to being in hair and makeup and having a glass of wine. Then that glass of wine would carry over into me having one before the awards show. And then a bunch at the awards show.”

“I went to that dark place that I had been avoiding, and I dug out the mold,” she said at the time in June 2017. “It was not fun, but I did that — I’m still doing that.”

“Like, at first it’s fine and you think you have a dark side – it’s exciting – and then you realise the dark side wins every time if you decide to indulge in it,” she said in October 2012 of drinking in her teen years. “It’s also a completely different way of living when you know that… a different species of person. It was the worst thing that ever happened to me.”

"I don't drink. I've never tried a drug," she said in 2012. “It's not like I decided on these strict lifestyle choices and I'm enforcing them. It's just something that I genuinely don't have a desire for."

“No, I'm not a big drinker at all,” she told Elle in May 2017. “My version of that is like, ‘Let's go grab a coffee, let's go on a hike.’ I'm so L.A.”

“I’ve never been a drinker, I’ve never gotten into drugs,” she said in 2010. “I think you know my sisters do enough drinking to kind of fill up the whole family.”

“That was a time when I couldn't deal with anything,” she said in September 2015. “I was drinking, and I was not really myself. It's only when you come out of that phase you realise you were in trouble."

“I feel like I’ve been very lucky because I don’t really have an addictive personality,” she’s said. “I’ve never had any drugs, and I had a little taste of alcohol when I was 12 years old, but that’s about it.”

"I found myself drinking two bottles of wine on the couch, and I said, 'Jada, I think we've got a problem here,'" she said. "From that day on, I went cold turkey."

“I don't drink or smoke or have caffeine,” she’s said. “That really wrecks your skin as you get older.”

“I went through a normal kind of late teens, early 20s drinking, but it was a choice I made, because I didn’t think it was very good for my life,” she said.

"I realized it was not going to end well,” she said. “I got into the acting program, it was very challenging, I was hungover and I wasn’t doing so well in my classes. I thought, “Do you know what? It’s going to be one or the other. I can’t really have both.”

"They're very grabby, all their insecurities are put on you; if you look at them the wrong way, they're like, 'What?!'" she said in September 2015. "It's just the biggest bummer of an energy for me. If I'm at a party, as soon as that wave of everybody being drunk starts, I'm [snaps]."

“I’ve never had a drink in my life. I’m sober,” she’s said. “I’ve never been interested. Nobody ever believes it.”

“I want to lead a calm life," she said in 2010. "I'm done with partying. When you get older things that seemed important to you when you were 20 suddenly lose significance.”

"I have always enjoyed cocktails socially, but I have been conscious of both the calories and drinking in moderation,” she’s said. "I don't drink or take drugs so clothes are my only mood enhance.