Actors Quote by Joe Eszterhas

Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly…

— Joe Eszterhas

In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would…

— Peter York

Why Hollywood has killed so many movie stars with cigarette smoking, with the romanticization of it from John Wayne to Humphrey Bogart, all those…

— Chris Hayes

The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the '90s, there…

— Joe Eszterhas

It [smoking] was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's…

— Chris Matthews

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette.…

— Melissa Leo

There are some young women movie stars who are doing it everywhere, smoking in every movie, sometimes even with placements with a pack of…

— Joe Eszterhas

In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.

— Gerald McRaney

No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.

— Joe Eszterhas

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

I used to use cigarettes to indicate somebody's an outsider a lot. It gave character a seedy, disreputable, almost suicidal quality. Now cigarettes are…

— Daniel Clowes

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

— Loni Anderson