36 Quotes by Hedda Hopper

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.

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.

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.

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

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.'

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

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.

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