I front an organization that kills 1,200 people a day.
Nick Naylor
Aaron Eckhart · 26 quotes
BR
J.K. Simmons · 4 quotes
Joey
Cameron Bright · 4 quotes
Bobby
David Koechner · 3 quotes
Jeff Megall
Rob Lowe · 3 quotes
Polly
Maria Bello · 3 quotes
Senator Ortolan Finisterre
3 quotes
Most scenes together: Nick Naylor & Joey (4), Nick Naylor & Jeff Megall (3), Nick Naylor & Polly (3)
Thank You for Smoking quotes
Page 3 of 3In 1910, the US was producing ten billion cigarettes a year, by 1930 we were up to one hundred twenty three billion, what happened in between? Three things: a World War, Dieting and movies. [...] 1927, talking pictures are born. Suddenly directors need to give their actors something to do while they're talking. Cary Grant and Carole Lombard are lighting up, Bette Davis, a chimney, and Bogart, remember the first picture with him and Lauren Bacall? [...] She sort of shimmies in through the doorway. Nineteen years old. Pure sex. She says "Anyone got a match?" and Bogie throws the matches at her... and she catches them. Greatest romance in the century, how did it start? Lighting a cigarette. In these days, when someone smokes in the movies, they're either a psychopath... or an European. The message that Hollywood needs to send out is "Smoking is Cool!". We need the cast of, uh, Will & Grace smoking in their living room, Forrest Gump puffing away between his box of chocolates, Hugh Grant earning back the love of Julia Roberts by buying her favorite brand - her Virginia Slims. Most of the actors smoke already. If they start doing it on screen... We can put the sex back into cigarettes.
Michael Jordan plays ball. Charles Manson kills people. I talk. Everyone has a talent.
People, what is going on out there? I look down this table, all I see are white flags! Our numbers are down all across the board. Teen smoking, our bread and butter, is falling like a shit from heaven! We don't sell Tic Tacs for Christ's sake. We sell cigarettes! And they're cool and available and addictive. The job is almost done for us! Now, this environmentalist [Pussy] is challenging us. We have to have an answer! I'm asking you, when this **** puts Captain Hook on our product, what the **** are we going to do!?
The message Hollywood needs to send out is that smoking is cool. We can put the sex back into cigarettes.
The number 1 killer in America is cholesterol, and here comes Senator Finisterre who's clogging the nation's arteries with Vermont cheddar cheese.
The rest of you people go slam your **** brains against your desks until something useful comes out!
These days, when someone smokes in the movies, they're either a psychopath … or a European.
When you're looking for a cancer kid, he should be hopeless. He should have a wheelchair, he should have trouble talking, he should have a little pet goldfish in a Zip-lock bag, hopeless.
You know that guy that can get any girl? I'm him … on crack.