Top 36 Quotes & Sayings by Jack Osbourne

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English celebrity Jack Osbourne.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Jack Osbourne

Jack Joseph Osbourne is an English media personality with dual American and British citizenship. The son of heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, he starred on MTV's reality series The Osbournes (2002–2005), along with his father, mother Sharon, and sister Kelly. Osbourne has since pursued a career as a fitness and travel reporter, presenting shows such as Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie (2005–2009) and BBC's Saving Planet Earth (2007). In 2016, he and his father Ozzy travelled the world in the History Channel reality series Ozzy & Jack's World Detour.

You can't take good health for granted.
'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.
When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice. — © Jack Osbourne
When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.
For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.
I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.
Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.
I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.
I've been drinking and using since I was 13. — © Jack Osbourne
I've been drinking and using since I was 13.
Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.
I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it - MS overall, as a subject, as a disease - there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.
I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.
It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning. — © Jack Osbourne
I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.
You cant take good health for granted.
Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the way I could fit in.
I'm an ass-kicking fat kid.
I'd have to say that muaythai is something special. It's really demanding and it's becoming popular all around the world.
I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.
Diet is a big thing. I am a firm believer in you are what you eat. I juice a lot, I try and stick to a Paleo Diet. At its core, I look at MS as inflammation, so I try and eliminate foods that cause inflammation: dairy, gluten, grains.
I have a tendency to really stuff things — like, I don't really express certain feelings.
Just know this, if that day does come where I do win this mirrorball, know that I didn't just win it for me, but I won it for all of us with MS.
I go to a meeting every day. I surround myself with people who don't use. I recently got back from Ozzfest and I caught myself in kind of a sticky situation where I was around a lot of people using, drinking and it was kind of - I didn't have the urge to use once, but I just knew I shouldn't have been there.
Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana. — © Jack Osbourne
Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.
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