Two champagne flutes lean together, one partly filled with amber liquid, against a plum background.

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Lee Remick

This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's enough to make a person drink.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker makes her sober appearance the supposed reason to begin drinking. That reversal turns a condition usually associated with control into an apparent problem requiring its opposite. The remark directs the joke at herself, using exaggerated dissatisfaction with her looks to produce the excuse.

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