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I hate labels.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Hate
Labels
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People believe what they want to believe.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Believe
People
Want
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I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.
Tab Hunter / Actor
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I don't care about being in the public eye.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Public Eye
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A person's life is hopefully more than just one thing.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Just One
Just One Thing
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My sexuality is only a thread of the tapestry of my life.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Sexuality
Tapestry
Thread
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Off The Wall
Wall
Water
John
John Waters
Waters
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There would be no Tab Hunter if it were not for Dick Clayton.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Hunter
Tab
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Disgusting
Importance
People
External
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I did Polyester, and I dont regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
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Minutes
Regret
Wonderful
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I really didn't talk about my sexuality until I wrote my autobiography.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Autobiography
Sexuality
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I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
Tab Hunter / Actor
One Minute
Regret
Minute
Polyester
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I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Jeopardy
Workaholic
Turned
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Humor
Great Guy
Guy
Rocks
Sense Of Humor
Humor Great Sense Of Humor
Hudson
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I feel closest to God with a pitchfork full of crap in my hands. I'm serious!
Tab Hunter / Actor
Closest
Crap
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John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Macho
Real
Stuff
Turns
Wayne
John
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People are too quick to criticize and condemn. We've got to be more positive.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Positive
Criticize
Condemn
Quick
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I was born in New York. I grew up in San Francisco, Long Beach, and Los Angeles.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Beach
Long Beach
San Francisco
Francisco
San
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If I had come out during my acting career in the 1950s, I would not have had a career.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Acting Career
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I've been a very, very fortunate man. I've had a lot of highs - and a great deal of lows.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Great Deal
Highs
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I lived in those old movie houses as a kid. I just loved them. What total escapism for someone.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Escapism
Houses
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Without a doubt, my sexuality was something that I just never discussed, especially in the 1950s.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Sexuality
Discussed
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I never mentioned my sexuality to Warner Bros. at all, and they never mentioned it to me, thank God.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Bros
Sexuality
Thank God
Warner Bros
God Me Thank God
God Thank God Me
Mentioned
Warner
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I'm a very private person who grew up with a strict German mother who believed 'loose lips sink ships.'
Tab Hunter / Actor
Ships
Strict
German
Loose
Private Person
Sink
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I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Crazy
Denial
Mother
Confronted
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I love singing. You know, my mother always used to encourage me, 'Sing, sing,' and I was in a choir in church, yes.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Choir
Love Always Me
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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 / Actor
Hollywood
Individualism
Ran
Spaghetti
Italy
Westerns
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In my personal life, I was quite a different Boy Next Door than the one Mr. and Mrs. Middle America imagined me to be.
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America
Middle
Next
Personal Life
Boy
Quite
Mr
Door
Mrs
Next Door
Personal
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I believe one's sexuality is one's own business. I really don't go around discussing it. Call me 'old school' on that topic.
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Discussing
Sexuality
Business Believe I Believe
Business Believe Me
Topic
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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 / Actor
Battle
Cry
Dean
Jimmy
Newman
Nine
Roles
Tested
Tests
Finally
Paul
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Divine was like a 400-pound beached whale. He was one of my favorite leading ladies, I've got to tell you. He was really terrific.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Divine
Terrific
Ladies
Whale
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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 / Actor
Motion Pictures
Thrown
Motion
Pictures
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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 / Actor
Best
Care
Dislike
Dislike Me
Don't Care
Earth
People
Popularity
Popularity Contest
Winning
Me People Care
Best Me People
Being
Best Me Care
Here
Contest
Win
Human
Human Being
Whether
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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.
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Foundation
Important
People
Training
Mattered
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I'm very proud of 'That Kind of Woman' with Sophia Loren, directed by Sidney Lumet, and I loved doing 'Gunman's Walk' because I finally got to play a bad guy.
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Sophia
Bad Guy
Directed
Sophia Loren
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Unless you're of a certain age, you may not know my name, but you can Google it - I was a pretty big movie star in the 1950s. Oh, and another thing: I was - am - gay.
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Big Movie
Movie Star
Certain Age
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There are a lot of people who have the same fears and problems I had as a young man growing up. You read about it all the time. If you can help someone in some way, terrific.
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Terrific
Young Man
Fears
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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 / Actor
Bad Taste
Hate
Heart
People
Taste
Page
Press
Tab
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My nickname, when I was 15 years old in the Coast Guard, they called me 'Hollywood' because I went to the movies all the time. It was such great escapism. That's why I ran away from home.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Coast Guard
Escapism
Hollywood
Ran
Time Home Great
Nickname
Guard
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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.
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Sad
People
Single Mom
Thinking
Single Moment
Wanting
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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.
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Tapestry
Three
Two
Years
Life Relationship Myself
Figured
Perkins
Threads
Tony
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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.
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Men
Divorce
People
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People think that because you might have a feeling toward another male that you don't enjoy women. I love women. I love being around them. But when we'd go out together, we'd kind of almost go out in disguise. Not in disguise, but in a baseball cap and sunglasses.
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Disguise
Sunglasses
Love Women Together
Cap
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Once in a while a good opportunity would come along, like the first 'Playhouse 90 ever to air - working in television afforded me my best opportunities. The (film) industry was going through such turmoil at the time - studios didn't know where to go anymore, they were falling apart, television was there. They didn't know what kind of films people wanted. The European films were making a huge impact because those films wanted real people in real situations.
Tab Hunter / Actor
Opportunity
Fall
Real
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