"Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses"
About this Quote
The line’s casual grammar, “that’s one of my weaknesses,” does a lot of stealth work. “One of” softens the admission, implying self-awareness without full surrender, as if the speaker is letting you in but keeping the door on the chain. It’s the language of a public figure who understands how confession functions in interviews: give people something human, familiar, slightly edgy, and safely non-specific. You’re not hearing an addiction narrative; you’re hearing an image-management narrative that still wants to feel honest.
Contextually, this sits neatly in late-’90s/early-2000s celebrity culture, when actors were sold as approachable and a little tortured, and smoking still carried a residue of cool even as it was becoming publicly unfashionable. The subtext is intimacy-by-ritual: you can picture the early call time, the trailer steps, the warm cup and the quick drag, the small private moment that punctures the performance. It works because it’s a weakness that reads like character development, not a headline.
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| Topic | Coffee |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Behr, Jason. (2026, January 16). Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/coffee-and-cigarettes-thats-one-of-my-weaknesses-117702/
Chicago Style
Behr, Jason. "Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/coffee-and-cigarettes-thats-one-of-my-weaknesses-117702/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/coffee-and-cigarettes-thats-one-of-my-weaknesses-117702/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.







