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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Lived
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
- Great Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in New York. I grew up in San Francisco, Long Beach, and Los Angeles.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love singing. You know, my mother always used to encourage me, 'Sing, sing,' and I was in a choir in church, yes.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very private person who grew up with a strict German mother who believed 'loose lips sink ships.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without a doubt, my sexuality was something that I just never discussed, especially in the 1950s.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person's life is hopefully more than just one thing.
- Acting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had come out during my acting career in the 1950s, I would not have had a career.
- Autobiography
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really didn't talk about my sexuality until I wrote my autobiography.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my personal life, I was quite a different Boy Next Door than the one Mr. and Mrs. Middle America imagined me to be.
- Labels
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate labels.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never mentioned my sexuality to Warner Bros. at all, and they never mentioned it to me, thank God.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care about being in the public eye.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very grateful for this road that I've been on - it's been a good one. It's been a tough one at times, too.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a very, very fortunate man. I've had a lot of highs - and a great deal of lows.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020