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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
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Joe Eszterhas
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 23
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I was surprised by how warm the response was, even among studio heads, who said they really, we do have to do something about glamourization of smoking.
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I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.
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I haven't really spoken to God since I was a boy and I've rediscovered god and prayer in the process and all of that has come together.
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I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.
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No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.
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I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.
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Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
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What Hollywood has done through the years is glamorized it even more, made it sexy, made it sensuous, and dwelled on those pleasure aspects, completing ignoring the fact that Hollywood as an industry, was pointing the gun at young people - pointing a gun at them when they were 12 to 14 years.
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I will focus on smoking in movies and with the amount of time that I have left in the world, I will do the best I can to stop smoking in movies and also to help people stop smoking, just normal ordinary people who may need help.
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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.
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Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.
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There are certainly a lot of sins to be taken on. To take on smoking and movies is a weighty enough thing, I think, and it's one I've experienced, and it's what's caused me to live in-with my voice maimed for the rest of my life.
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