Quotes from Tab Hunter

I feel closest to God with a pitchfork full of crap in my hands. I'm serious!

I've been a very, very fortunate man. I've had a lot of highs - and a great deal of lows.

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

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

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.

I lived in those old movie houses as a kid. I just loved them. What total escapism for someone.

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

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.

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.

People believe what they want to believe.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

What's inside a person is more valuable than what's on the outside," Mother constantly preached. "Don't be fooled by the exterior.

You see, people hang labels, tags of false identification, on the people that disturb their own sense of reality too much, like the bells that used to be hung on the necks of lepers.

Sometimes when you're confused, you push away the people you shouldn't. You're either afraid of being hurt or of hurting them.

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.

A person's life is hopefully more than just one thing.

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

I'm a very private person who grew up with a strict German mother who believed 'loose lips sink ships.'

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