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Daily Inspiration Quote by Jason Behr

"Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses"

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Coffee and cigarettes: a two-item confession that lands because it’s both banal and loaded. Jason Behr isn’t reaching for a grand vice or a scandalous revelation; he’s naming the kind of everyday dependency that feels socially legible, even faintly cinematic. The pairing matters. Coffee is coded as productivity, cigarettes as self-sabotage. Together they sketch a persona caught between control and craving, the functional ritual and the slow burn.

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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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/

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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.

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Jason Behr (born December 30, 1973) is a Actor from USA.

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