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> [A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/a-cigarette-in-the-hands-of-a-hollywood-star-onscreen-is-a-gun-aimed/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-eszterhas/)

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## More by Joe Eszterhas

> [Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/don-t-smoke-don-t-kill-yourselves-don-t-maim-yourselves-tell-your/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/bill-klinton-was-the-ultimate-rock-star-as-president-i-don-t-think-as/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-eszterhas/)

> [I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/i-have-only-one-loyalty-to-my-writing-i-never-wanted-to-be-the-head/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/i-was-a-militant-smoker-and-in-my-case-i-think-i-particularly-used/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-eszterhas/)

> [A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/a-cigarette-in-the-hands-of-a-hollywood-star-onscreen-is-a-gun-aimed/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/certainly-on-a-political-and-a-legislative-level-bill-clinton-was/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-eszterhas/)

> [I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/i-had-read-too-many-memoirs-that-were-written-after-the-writer-or-the/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-eszterhas/)

> [That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/that-s-sort-of-what-i-felt-i-miss-drinking-i-thought-bars-were-truly/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/i-do-want-to-make-a-special-appeal-to-women-movie-stars-to-i-think/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/i-think-to-put-death-on-screen-where-it-isn-t-that-turns-it-into/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/i-think-one-of-the-things-that-i-was-struck-by-was-that-joe-has-the/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/and-the-inner-dynamics-of-hollywood-are-like-politics-say-you-give-a/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/joe-lieberman-frightens-me-why-should-we-an-hollywood-voter-donate/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/i-m-not-suggesting-at-all-that-we-take-away-all-of-the-characters/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-eszterhas/there-are-certainly-a-lot-of-sins-to-be-taken-on-to-take-on-smoking/)

[Joe Eszterhas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-eszterhas/)

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