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

- 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

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 …

- Hedda Hopper

Dancing came easy to me.

- Hedda Hopper

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.

- Hedda Hopper

In singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up in volume.

- Hedda Hopper

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

- Hedda Hopper

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.

- Hedda Hopper

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.

- Hedda Hopper