Of All the Gin Joints Quotes

“For Chandler it was all or nothing. Or, to hear one of his characters say it, “I’m an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.”
― Mark Bailey, Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History

“He would only confess to being drunk one time—it lasted “from the Spanish-American war to the New Deal.”
― Mark Bailey, Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History

“You can’t drown yourself in drink. I’ve tried; you float.”
― Mark Bailey, Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History

“He had a stationary bike with a full bar just in front of it, which his girlfriend, Carlotta Monti, said "provided incentive.”
― Mark Bailey, Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History

“He decried any nonalcoholic substitute, even water - because he reasoned "fish fuck in it.”
― Mark Bailey, Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History

“We have taken beauty and exchanged it for stilted voices.”
― Mark Bailey, Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History

“worry”
― Mark Bailey, Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History