Joe Eszterhas Stars Quotations

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.

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.

I think the main issue is that a lot of the stars today are very addicted, and they simply feel more comfortable smoking as they act.

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

I started making a point earlier that women's cancer rates are skyrocketing, and we have some women movie stars, young women movie stars, who are smoking in many of their movies.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

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.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking, not to do it up on screen because the example that's being set is really an awful example.

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

No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want .