Hedda Hopper famous quotes

04-17-2025

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Husband #Gone #Alive
In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Gratitude #Numbers #Enemy
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Punishment #Two #Hollywood
Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Kings #Gold #Hollywood
Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Smart #Successful #Hollywood
No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Hollywood #Matter #Towns
The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Movie #Dream #Genius
Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Stars #Men #Agents
In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Grief #Littles #Poverty
TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Creativity #Tvs #Dabs
Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Movie #Eye #Heart
I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.
-- Hedda Hopper

#People #Gossip #Hollywood
Dancing came easy to me.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Dancing #Easy
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Light #Sweetness
And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Voice #Singing #Quality
I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Men #Expression #Actors
I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it`s a conversation piece.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Pieces #Way #Hats
Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Beautiful #Home #Rooms
Lucille Ball hates the color of her hair, too, and says `I should wear a sign on my chest saying I hate it, but Technicolor demands it.'
-- Hedda Hopper

#Hate #Hair #Color
About once every six months someone notifies me that Lucy and Desi Arnaz are separating.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Months #Six #Notify
I think Lilyan (Tashman) is one of the most amusing people I know but I believe she dresses in too flamboyant a manner. Where some women wear one or two diamond clasps, she wears four!
-- Hedda Hopper

#Believe #Thinking #Two
In anger, you look ten years older.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Anger #Years #Looks
You had to stand in line to hate him.
-- Hedda Hopper

#Sarcastic #Hate #Lines

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