Hedda Hopper Quotes

#1. And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.

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#2. At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility.

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

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

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#5. Dancing came easy to me.

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#6. Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

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#7. In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

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

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#9. 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.

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

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

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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.

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#16. Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

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#17. 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.

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#18. In anger, you look ten years older.

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#19. 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.

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#20. She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater.

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

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#22. 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!

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#23. You had to stand in line to hate him.

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