A biography for Tab Hunterhasn’t been written yet.
“People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.”
“People are too quick to criticize and condemn. We've got to be more positive.”
“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 did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.”
“I've been a very, very fortunate man. I've had a lot of highs - and a great deal of lows.”
“There would be no Tab Hunter if it were not for Dick Clayton.”
“If I had come out during my acting career in the 1950s, I would not have had a career.”
“I'm a very private person who grew up with a strict German mother who believed 'loose lips sink ships.'”
“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.”
“I really didn't talk about my sexuality until I wrote my autobiography.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I lived in those old movie houses as a kid. I just loved them. What total escapism for someone.”
“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 believe one's sexuality is one's own business. I really don't go around discussing it. Call me 'old school' on that topic.”
“A person's life is hopefully more than just one thing.”
“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.”
“I never mentioned my sexuality to Warner Bros. at all, and they never mentioned it to me, thank God.”
“Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.”