Best 22 quotes of Hedda Hopper on MyQuotes

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

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

Dancing came easy to me.

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.

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.

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

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.

I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

In anger, you look ten years older.

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.'

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You had to stand in line to hate him.