Where could you go in Harrisonville?-this smalltime place…

Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.

— Joe Eszterhas

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

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

— Joe Eszterhas

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

A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.

— Joe Eszterhas

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

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

— Joe Eszterhas

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

— Joe Eszterhas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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