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Life's Pleasures Quote by Denise Richards

"A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up"

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Denise Richards turns “taste” into a small act of self-protection. The opening is pure aspirational lifestyle: margarita, red wine, expensive alcohol. Then she punctures it with a blunt, almost adolescent punch line: “I don’t like to throw up.” That snap from curated indulgence to bodily reality is the engine here. It’s funny because it refuses the usual celebrity script of effortless glamour or faux-virtuous abstinence. She isn’t selling purity; she’s selling control.

The intent reads as boundary-setting disguised as a party anecdote. Richards signals that she knows the status language of luxury (good, expensive) but wants to opt out of the chaos that often shadows it. “Not a lot of it” is doing the real work: a line in the sand for someone living under a microscope where excess becomes headline, meme, cautionary tale. The subtext is that moderation isn’t about morality; it’s about preserving dignity, health, and the next day’s obligations. In celebrity culture, hangovers aren’t just private misery - they can become public narrative.

Contextually, it lands in the post-2000s celebrity ecosystem where women, especially actresses, are policed from both directions: condemned for partying too hard, mocked for being too careful. Richards threads that needle with a shrugging honesty. She claims pleasure without performing self-destruction, and she does it with a line that yanks the conversation back to the unglamorous truth: your body always collects the tab.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Richards, Denise. (2026, January 17). A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-good-margarita-a-good-red-wine-i-like-expensive-50997/

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Richards, Denise. "A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-good-margarita-a-good-red-wine-i-like-expensive-50997/.

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"A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-good-margarita-a-good-red-wine-i-like-expensive-50997/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.

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Denise Richards (born February 17, 1972) is a Actress from USA.

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