I think the main issue is that a lot of the stars today are very addicted, and they simply feel more comfortable… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" . — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the… — 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
I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
There are certainly a lot of sins to be taken on. To take on smoking and movies is a weighty enough thing,… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Anyone I think who - that would go through a cancer ward and would see the result of what smoking does, would… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
There's no doubt in my mind that Bill Clinton will stop smoking cigars, will never smoke them again, as a result of… — 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
Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he'd come on TV or talking about smoking, I… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is… — 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
Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
All has changed, thanks to Joe Eszterhas' life-threatening battle with throat cancer. He announced in "The New York Times" that he and… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I was surprised by how warm the response was, even among studio heads, who said they really, we do have to do… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I started making a point earlier that women's cancer rates are skyrocketing, and we have some women movie stars, young women movie… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I will focus on smoking in movies and with the amount of time that I have left in the world, I will… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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
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 Image
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 Image
That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
