I wasn't allowed to speak ...

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

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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.
 Hedda Hopper
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
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.
 Hedda Hopper
You had to stand in line to hate him.
 Hedda Hopper