Holden Smoking Quotes

Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.

Rice is great when you’re hungry and you want two thousand of something.”     —Mitch Hedberg

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.”     —CARL SAGAN

After his Oscar disappointment, Holden fell off the wagon. Powers tried in vain to console him. But her heartfelt concern for the man she loved was not enough to keep him sober. He stopped drinking beer and wine and resumed his daily intake of hard liquor. A heavy suntan no longer concealed the droopy eyes, receding hairline, and leathery skin. Decades of chain-smoking had reduced his melodious voice to a raspy baritone.

I found a bag of pot in your underwear drawer, and you told me that you thought they were pencil shavings.”     —JOSEPH BOLOGNA AS LENNY IN BIG DADDY

The sky is turning from black to gray and I stop to remember this melancholy moment for my acting. I huddle on a bench in my big thrift-store overcoat and my painful hair, watching my breath make clouds and thinking Holden Caulfield-y thoughts, like how come you never see any baby pigeons? This is what those people on black-and-white French postcards must feel like. I find myself craving a cup of coffee and a cigarette despite the fact that I neither drink coffee nor smoke.

In what must surely be considered one of the great lost scripts of history (or a Saturday Night Live sketch), Chase brought his usual sensibility to a trial run, having Kevin discover The Catcher in the Rye and start smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee, and conversing with the shade of Holden Caulfield.