Tab Hunter - biography

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

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

“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 lived a very don’t-ask, don’t-tell life.”

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

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

“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 knew Jimmy Dean.  He tested for ‘Battle Cry’.  Paul Newman tested for ‘Battle Cry’.  I did nine tests to finally get that role.”

“John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off.  It’s not real.”

“People believe what they want to believe.”

“People place such importance on the external.  It’s disgusting.”

“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.”

Tab Hunter has appeared in the following films:
Saturday Island (1952)
Return to Treasure Island (1954)
Track of the Cat (1954)
Battle Cry (1955)
The Sea Chase (1955)
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
The Burning Hills (1956)
Lafayette Escadrille (1958)
That Kind of Woman (1959)
They Came to Cordura (1959)
The Pleasure of His Company (1961)
The City Under the Sea (1965)
The Loved One (1965)
Hostile Guns (1967)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Timber Tramps (1975)
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
Grease 2 (1982)
Lust in the Dust (1985)
Out of the Dark (1989)