Joe Eszterhas Quotes

The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.

I live my life and I do what I do, and sometimes you forget that people are watching you.

What I do is what I like; if I'm not as famous as I'd like to be, I've done it to myself.

Let me live my life the way I want to.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

I never want to be a role model.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

I want to live life on my own terms.

If I want to dress myself a certain way, I don't want to have to rely on someone else to do it for me.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t have to follow. You don’t have to make a big deal about which way you’re going. Just go. It’s very easy.’

The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.

It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.

I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.

From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.

I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.

People do whatever they want to do, y'know.

Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and, if they don't get it, have a tendency to initiate counterrevolution.

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people "participate.

I didn't set out to be unusual or different. I just wanted to do things my way.