Quotes by Joe Eszterhas

Joe Eszterhas

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

Gun

Hands

Stars

Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop.

Actors

Cigarette

Hats

All has changed, thanks to Joe Eszterhas’ life-threatening battle with throat cancer. He announced in “The New York Times” that he and Hollywood had blood on their hands and now Eszterhas is crusading to stop Hollywood’s glamorization of smoking.

Blood

Cancer

New York

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives – they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

Giving

Voice

Waiting

Anyone I think who – that would go through a cancer ward and would see the result of what smoking does, would never, ever think of smoking is sexy again.

Cancer

Sexy

Thinking

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.

Boys

Girl

Thinking

Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he’d come on TV or talking about smoking, I found my blood pressure go up. I just met-really met Rob for the first time last week and told him how much I admire him. He’s done more than anyone else in the industry.

Blood

Talking

Views

Bette Davis had a phrase that called it “cigarette smoking acting” .

Acting

Phrases

Smoking

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 star as president again. In the same way that we will never get involved in another Vietnam.

Rocks

Stars

Thinking

Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for posterity, tragically, is going to begin with that single paragraph lead with the White House intern.

House

Thinking

White

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Congratulations

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Country

Creative

Crowds

Cutting

Determination

Directors

Doubt

Drinking

Entertainment

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Expression

Eye

Father

Focus

Girl

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House

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Quotes by Joe Eszterhas

Joe Eszterhas

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

Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop.

All has changed, thanks to Joe Eszterhas’ life-threatening battle with throat cancer. He announced in “The New York Times” that he and Hollywood had blood on their hands and now Eszterhas is crusading to stop Hollywood’s glamorization of smoking.

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives – they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

Anyone I think who – that would go through a cancer ward and would see the result of what smoking does, would never, ever think of smoking is sexy again.

Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he’d come on TV or talking about smoking, I found my blood pressure go up. I just met-really met Rob for the first time last week and told him how much I admire him. He’s done more than anyone else in the industry.

Bette Davis had a phrase that called it “cigarette smoking acting” .

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 star as president again. In the same way that we will never get involved in another Vietnam.

Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for posterity, tragically, is going to begin with that single paragraph lead with the White House intern.

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