Joe Eszterhas Quotes About Cigarettes

Quotes about: Cigarettes

• Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Behaviour, Habit, Cigarette

  "'I felt I had befouled myself'". Interview with Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

• Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

  Joe Eszterhas

  Smoking, Acting, Phrases

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

• 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

  Actors, Hats, Cigarette

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

• 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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

• They do the same thing [with cigarette] that they do in the kind of action picture where you know 200 people are killed and then there's no pain.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Pain, People, Action

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

• A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Gun, Hands

  "Hollywood's Responsibility for Smoking Deaths" by Joe Eszterhas, www.nytimes.com. August 9, 2002.

• I began my addiction when I was 12 years old. By the time 40, 45 years later, when it, you know, it threatened my life and maimed me in terms of my voice, I was so addicted that I was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Years, Voice, Addiction

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

• The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of those people for many, many years, is an amazing pleasure and a hit that some people say, and I've never done heroin, but some people say that it rivals the heroin hit, so there is that pleasure. The-it kills you the same way that heroin kills you.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Views, Years, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital really, but the cigarettes are much tougher and to tell you the truth.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Real, Drinking, Tough

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

• 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.]

  Joe Eszterhas

  Actors, Pay, Cigarette

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

• 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 a cigarette after he ate, he would get up and walk. At cocktail hour when he used to have a drink and watch the news, he stopped watching the news. He couldn't. He couldn't watch the news and not have a drink and a cigarette. He would walk.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Home, Thinking, Addiction

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

• Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like "In The Bedroom", you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Independent, Focus, Pay

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Smoking, Sometimes

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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