“In the olden days, of course, cigarette companies would pay to have their product advertised in movies and to have actors smoke cigarettes.[Ronald Reagan used to do it.]” UsedCoursesActorsPayCompanyProductsSmokeCigaretteOlden Days Author:Joe Eszterhas
“I think that Hollywood is sort of guilty of having a moral blind eye on this subject. While at the same time, you know, being involved in a lot of liberal causes and being involved very militantly, Hollywood is, in fact, guilty of helping to addict people to smoke.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFactsHelpingEyeCausesMoralSubjectsInvolvedHollywoodBlindGuiltySmokeAddictBlind Eyes Author:Joe Eszterhas
“Assuming that all bad girls smoke. I don't think so. I've been around a lot of bad girls who don't smoke, you know, so I think it's easy to put a cigarette into, you know, into anyone's hands and say, well that makes them a bad boy or a bad girl. There are many more creative ways from a writerly point of view to do that.” ThinkingKnowsWayWellsHandsGirlEasyViewsBoysCreativeAssumingPoint Of ViewSmokeCigaretteBad BoyBad Girl Author:Joe Eszterhas
“No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.” WantStarsCan DoSmokeMovie Star Author:Joe Eszterhas
“There's no doubt in my mind that Bill Clinton will stop smoking cigars, will never smoke them again, as a result of what he did with that cigar.” MindResultsDoubtBillsClintonSmokeNo DoubtSmokingCigarSmoking CigarsStop Smoking Author:Joe Eszterhas
“Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.” PleaseSmoke Author:Joe Eszterhas
“From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.” ThinkingWantReasonBigsAbleStarsPerformancesDetermineSmokeTobacco Author:Joe Eszterhas
