I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.
In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.
Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.
The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.
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.
Don't you think it would be great to do a bunch of Nicorette commercials? Just, like, me in the desert, kind of Marlboro Man-style, driving a fast car, pulling over, looking at the sunset. Dissolving in ecstasy. Can't you see it? Me blowing huge Nicorette bubbles.
I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.
It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.