104 Quotes by Joe Eszterhas

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.

Politics has become entertainment.

Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page in revenge. Real writers sit down and write. Wannabe writers sit around and talk.

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

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

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn’t want them to be checking his writings.

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.

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

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 were more movies showing smoking than there were in the ’60s.