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" I hate labels. "
Tab Hunter
Hate
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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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" Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns. "
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" I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy. "
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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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