Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting... by Joe Eszterhas

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

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I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the... by Joe Eszterhas

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

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Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit. by Joe Eszterhas

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

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From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

team heart writing

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.

eye people thinking

Politics has become entertainment. by Joe Eszterhas

Politics has become entertainment.

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.

immigration writing father

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I st... by Joe Eszterhas

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

six trouble country

I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop, he's not going to make one announcement and write one editorial and go away.

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I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

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I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power. by Joe Eszterhas

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

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I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

prime directors past

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.

response smoking said

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

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

rock-n-roll rocks stars

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head. by Joe Eszterhas

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

my-own religious

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars wer... by Joe Eszterhas

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

bars drinking missing

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.

tough real drinking

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in... by Joe Eszterhas

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.

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Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do... by Joe Eszterhas

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

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The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accounta... by Joe Eszterhas

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

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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.

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