Quotes from Tab Hunter

I really didn't talk about my sexuality until I wrote my autobiography.

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.

In my personal life, I was quite a different Boy Next Door than the one Mr. and Mrs. Middle America imagined me to be.

I never mentioned my sexuality to Warner Bros. at all, and they never mentioned it to me, thank God.

I love singing. You know, my mother always used to encourage me, 'Sing, sing,' and I was in a choir in church, yes.

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

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.

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

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

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.

There would be no Tab Hunter if it were not for Dick Clayton.

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.

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.

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.

Without a doubt, my sexuality was something that I just never discussed, especially in the 1950s.

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

I don't care about being in the public eye.

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.

I was born in New York. I grew up in San Francisco, Long Beach, and Los Angeles.

People are too quick to criticize and condemn. We've got to be more positive.

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.

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

My sexuality is only a thread of the tapestry of my life.

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.