One does not re-light a dead cigarette.

- Anna Held

Why make a movie about Ayrton Senna? Someone who drove around in circles at 200mph in a car that looked like a giant cigarette packet? Why would anyone who isn't already a fan of Formula 1 care?

- Asif Kapadia

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

- Arturo Toscanini

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

- Billy Connolly

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

- Ethel Merman

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

- Frederik Pohl

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

- Frederik Pohl

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

- H. L. Mencken

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

- Henry Fonda

If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette.

- Jimmy Piersall

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

- Loni Anderson

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

- Loni Anderson

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

- Loni Anderson

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

- Marjane Satrapi

You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.

- Norman Wisdom

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

- Rodney Dangerfield