Hedda Quotes & Sayings

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

She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater. — Hedda Hopper

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg. — Samantha Bond

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! — Hedda Hopper

My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth. — Talulah Riley

If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity. — Eve Best

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

As the ample Hedda, who disguised her ampleness behind a billow of yellow summer dress, told it, her life up 'til she hoisted this very bloody mary in her hand was a convoluted tale of bubbly love gone flat, fine talents unnoticed and similarly woeful bullshit. — Daniel Woodrell

I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one. — Hedda Sterne

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

For me, cooking is an extension of love. — Hedda Sterne

Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life. — Eleanora Duse

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

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study. — Hedda Sterne

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. — Hedda Hopper

Well, there were definitely elements of my rise in radio that had to do with my being black. But going back as far as Walter Winchell, Army Archerd and Hedda Hopper, legendary wags would grab a radio microphone and talk about what Errol Flynn and other stars were up to. — Wendy Williams

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

Ann Sothern's dressing room ... was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in. — Hedda Hopper

Each romance, the type of self-destructive gesture Hedda Hopper would call "marry-kiri".Instead of plunging a sword into one's stomach, you repeatedly throw yourself on the most inappropriate erect penis. — Chuck Palahniuk

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. — Hedda Hopper

In anger, you look ten years older. — Hedda Hopper

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler! — Sophie Thompson

'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast. — Kate Burton

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see. — Hedda Sterne

Dancing came easy to me. — Hedda Hopper

A lot of young girls who came to see me in 'Legally Blonde' have come to see 'Hedda,' and they hadn't heard of the play either, just like I was before I did it! If I can bring a younger generation to see an Ibsen play; that's just brilliant. — Sheridan Smith

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else. — Hedda Sterne

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

When I saw 'Legally Blonde' on Broadway, I rang my agent and said 'I want to be seen for this,' but the rest weren't big choices, really. 'Hedda Gabler' was a phone call offering it to me, and as I've said before quite embarrassingly, I didn't know the play, so I didn't sit there thinking 'I would now like to tackle Ibsen.' — Sheridan Smith

And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume. — Hedda Hopper

What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it? — Jennifer Ehle

Most women would say they relate to 'Hedda Gabler' - there's a part of her in them. Ibsen was writing about a deep ambivalence that many women feel about domesticity. I think about myself and friends of mine - we have some of Hedda's qualities and traits. — Annette Bening

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

There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn't you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody's maid or somebody's wife or somebody's best friend? — Eve Best

I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd. — Cate Blanchett

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One. — Hedda Hopper

About once every six months someone notifies me that Lucy and Desi Arnaz are separating. — 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

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits. — Sophie Thompson

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. — 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. — 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

Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star. — Hedda Hopper

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light. — Hedda Hopper

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

I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible. — Hedda Sterne