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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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