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When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.

Abel Ferrara

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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
New York City
New York
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Gambling
Eating
Throwing
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Alcohol
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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