Hedda Hopper Quotes

#1. The challenge of the writer is to transform - artistically and imaginatively - a unique personal experience into a universal, meaningful story.

Hillel F. Damron

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

Hedda Hopper

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

Hedda Hopper

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

Hedda Hopper

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

Hedda Hopper

#6. Dancing came easy to me.

Hedda Hopper

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

Hedda Hopper

#8. Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character.

Shannon L. Alder

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

Hedda Hopper

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

Hedda Hopper

#11. 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

#12. Each romance, the type of self-destructive gesture Hedda Hopper would call "marry-kiri".Instead of plunging a sword into one's stomach, you repeatedly throw yourself on the most inappropriate erect penis.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. Well, there were definitely elements of my rise in radio that had to do with my being black. But going back as far as Walter Winchell, Army Archerd and Hedda Hopper, legendary wags would grab a radio microphone and talk about what Errol Flynn and other stars were up to.

Wendy Williams

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

Hedda Hopper

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

Hedda Hopper

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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.

Hedda Hopper

#21. Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt.

Ben Greenhalgh

#22. 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

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

Hedda Hopper

#24. 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

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

Hedda Hopper

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

Hedda Hopper

#27. Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

Jennifer Capriati

#28. 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

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

Hedda Hopper

#30. In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same
Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind is clear they are of one substance, of one essence.

Stephen Levine