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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" If I had come out during my acting career in the 1950s, I would not have had a career. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" People believe what they want to believe. "

" I hate labels. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "