A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" . — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
They do the same thing [with cigarette] that they do in the kind of action picture where you know 200 people are… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
There are some young women movie stars who are doing it everywhere, smoking in every movie, sometimes even with placements with a… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I began my addiction when I was 12 years old. By the time 40, 45 years later, when it, you know, it… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
In the olden days, of course, cigarette companies would pay to have their product advertised in movies and to have actors smoke… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Assuming that all bad girls smoke. I don't think so. I've been around a lot of bad girls who don't smoke, you… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that I was struck by was that Joe has the financial wherewithal to go check into… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
Bill Klinton was the ultimate rock star as president. I don't think as a result of his presidency we will ever have a rock… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for posterity, tragically,… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking,… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
I think one of the things that I was struck by was that Joe has the financial wherewithal to go check into some expensive… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around,… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is so insidious,… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
There are certainly a lot of sins to be taken on. To take on smoking and movies is a weighty enough thing, I think,… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
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