Hedda Hopper Quotes

• You had to stand in line to hate him.

  Hedda Hopper

  Sarcastic, Hate, Hate Him

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• 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

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• 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, Telephones

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• 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

  Hedda Hopper (1952). “From under my hat”

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• 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

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

  Hedda Hopper

  Light, Sweetness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Hedda Hopper (1952). “From under my hat”

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• 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

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• I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it`s a conversation piece.

  Hedda Hopper

  Hate, Pieces, Way

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• In anger, you look ten years older.

  Hedda Hopper

  Anger, Years, Looks

  Hedda Hopper (1952). “From under my hat”

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• 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

  Hedda Hopper (2017). “From Under My Hat”, p.24, Graymalkin Media

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• 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

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• 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, Towns

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• 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

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

  Hedda Hopper

  Gratitude, Numbers, Enemy

  Hedda Hopper (2017). “From Under My Hat”, p.49, Graymalkin Media

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• 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

  Hedda Hopper (2017). “The Whole Truth and Nothing But”, p.266, Graymalkin Media

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• Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.

  Hedda Hopper

  Stars, Men, Agents

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• 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

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• 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, Sixty Minutes, Half

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• In singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up in volume.

  Hedda Hopper

  Voice, Singing, Quality

  "From Under My Hat".

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• Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.

  Hedda Hopper

  Beautiful, Home, Rooms

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• Dancing came easy to me.

  Hedda Hopper

  Dancing, Easy

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• About once every six months someone notifies me that Lucy and Desi Arnaz are separating.

  Hedda Hopper

  Six Months, Notify, Separating

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