Tab Hunter Quotes

#1. 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

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

Taylor Hackford

#3. When I was a teenager, the biggest heartthrob was Tab Hunter. He was in every movie out of Warner Bros. until he was exposed as gay, and his career faded. That was an object lesson. I knew I must protect my sexual orientation.

George Takei

#4. I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

Tab Hunter

#5. A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

Tab Hunter

#6. I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.

Tab Hunter

#7. While there may be thorns and disappointments, while there may be heartache, even heartbreak, there can be peace and comfort and strength from the Lord for those who follow Him.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#8. I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.

Tab Hunter

#9. Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

Tab Hunter

#10. I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

Nick Lowe

#11. I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.

Tab Hunter

#12. All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

Tab Hunter

#13. I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

Tab Hunter

#14. I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.

Tab Hunter

#15. I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

Tab Hunter

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

Tab Hunter

#17. I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

Tab Hunter

#18. Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?

John Edward Williams

#19. The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.

Tab Hunter

#20. Where there is a lesson to be learned there is always an opportunity of change to be gained. Change comes by learning, help us Lord Jesus to learn something from every lesson.

Euginia Herlihy

#21. I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

Tab Hunter

#22. I was a major fan of people in the industry, I was a major movie fan and I was just thrown into it. I was never a gregarious kind of a young man. I was very frightened. It was difficult to divorce myself from myself.

Tab Hunter

#23. It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

Mariah Carey

#24. If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

Rahul Gandhi

#25. Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

Lou Reed

#26. People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

Tab Hunter

#27. We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement ... we must concentrate outside ourselves.

Mark Tobey

#28. When you die, the only things you leave behind are memories in the minds of those who loved you. That was how you lived on.

Robyn Peterman

#29. John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.

Tab Hunter

#30. You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once.

Mike McDermott