Tommy Kirk quotes
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“I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.”
-- Tommy KirkSource : "Disney Kids Have Been Getting Naked and Taking Drugs for Over Half a Century, and Here's the Proof!". Interview, moviepilot.com. January 29, 2015.
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“When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career”
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“I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well”
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“I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff”
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“I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies”
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“After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made”
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“Eventually I became involved with somebody, and I was fired”
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“I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film”
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“Disney was a family film studio and I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney.”
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“After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made and I got professionally involved with a manager who said it didn't matter what you did as long as you kept working. I wound up completely broke.”
-- Tommy Kirk
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