Quotes About Rock Hudson

#1. I'd worked for, during one period, for a PR firm, and for a while Rock Hudson was a client of ours, so I knew him well, and I knew when he had AIDS, that he had AIDS, but I would not write about that.

Robert Osborne

#2. Don't you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you've made, every hurt you've received, every bit of meanness you've dealt out? There's no profit in it, no point to it, and you need sleep.

Charlaine Harris

#3. If there is a Heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.

Doris Day

#4. Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere.

James Wolcott

#5. Directly after Rock Hudson's death came the fears that gay writers and actors and directors would be denied jobs; who knew if they would live long enough to finish a feature film or television series? And would the unions force directors to give blood tests and ban actors who tested positive?

Michael Shnayerson

#6. Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

Douglas Sirk

#7. I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

Kate Hudson

#8. The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody.

Rock Hudson

#9. I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

Rock Hudson

#10. Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

Garth Hudson

#11. I've been through a lot in life, and had some ups and downs. It's what's led me to this day.

Russell Wilson

#12. I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

Dorothy Malone

#13. Someone asked me once what my philosophy of life was, and I said some crazy thing. I should have said, how the hell do I know?

Rock Hudson

#14. Like a snake on a rock, I have shed my skin and grown another. I feel reborn and ready to resume activities.

Fennel Hudson

#15. I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#16. After being still for so long, I am incapable of moving quicker than ivy growing over a rock.

Fennel Hudson

#17. Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.

Rock Hudson

#18. I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter ... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.

Rod Taylor

#19. I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth.

Rock Hudson

#20. The mind is a temple;
negative thoughts defile it.
The heart is a temple;
positive desires elevate it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

Althea Gibson

#22. I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

Rock Hudson

#23. Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

Joseph Joubert

#24. Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.

Tab Hunter

#25. I hear it, can actually feel, can even make out the letters of the message hovering above Bono's head in orange wavy letters: I ... am ... the ... devil ... and I am ... just ... like ... you ...

Bret Easton Ellis

#26. man is the only animal that is clever enough to build the empire state building and stupid enough to jump off.

Rock Hudson

#27. I don't know what it is about me: I am no Rock Hudson, but I absolutely wow all the little old white-haired ladies. They stop me and talk to me all over the country, on the street, in restaurants, in elevators.

Tom Heinsohn

#28. He'd had to fold his long legs into his desk. His boots had seen better days, and his jeans unraveled in a curiously irresistible way at the bottom. He didn't look like anyone I'd ever seen before. He reminded me of an actor in an old Western - Rock Hudson in Giant - all dark intensity.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#29. It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

Taylor Hackford

#30. If you are fat, no matter what you wear, nothing is going to make you sexier.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

#31. Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.

Anthony Perkins