36 Quotes by Hedda Hopper

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.’

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 couldn’t remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

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.

Nobody’s interested in sweetness and light.

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.

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.

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

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