Hedda Hopper
At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility.
I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.
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.
She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater.
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.
Dancing came easy to me.
You had to stand in line to hate him.Collection: Sarcastic
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.Collection: Husband
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.Collection: Punishment
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.Collection: Smart
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.Collection: Men
No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.Collection: Hollywood
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.'Collection: Hate
I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it`s a conversation piece.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: Grief
In anger, you look ten years older.Collection: Anger
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.Collection: Movie
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.Collection: Kings
I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.Collection: People
In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.Collection: Gratitude
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.Collection: Movie
Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.Collection: Stars
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!Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Creativity
In singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up in volume.Collection: Voice
Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.Collection: Beautiful
About once every six months someone notifies me that Lucy and Desi Arnaz are separating.Collection: Six Months