Happy ending Quote by Joe Eszterhas

“I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.”

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

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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…

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

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I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically…

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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.

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Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for posterity, tragically,…

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

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

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I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking,…

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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…

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I think one of the things that I was struck by was that Joe has the financial wherewithal to go check into some expensive clinic, go into rehab and beat these addictions but he didn't. He sort of designed his own, you know, sort of rehabilitation at home. And anybody could do what he did. When he felt like having…

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And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around,…

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“A diamond's happy ending is on a crown, but its beauty was formed in dirt.”

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“How are you, Rory?' [the Doctor] asked. I [Rory]... answered him. 'It's been odd being you.' 'Isn't it?' The Doctor's smile didn't quite reach his eyes. 'How do you cope?' 'Ah...' The Doctor picked away at a scrap of loose paint on the door. 'Well, I just get as close as I can to a happy ending, then I shut…

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