Hedda Hopper Quotes

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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We always knew there were such things as sewers, but never before have audiences had their noses pushed over so many gratings.

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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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Our town worships success, the bitch goddess whose smile hides a taste for blood.

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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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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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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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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.

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