Rock Hudson quotes

“I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth.”
-- Rock Hudson

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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“Someone asked me once what my philosophy of life was, and I said some crazy thing. I should have said, how the hell do I know?”
-- Rock Hudson

Source : Rock Hudson, Sara Davidson (1987). “Rock Hudson: his story”, Avon Books

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“The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody.”
-- Rock Hudson

Source : Rock Hudson, Sara Davidson (1987). “Rock Hudson: his story”, Avon Books

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“I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.”
-- Rock Hudson

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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“I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.”
-- Rock Hudson

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“The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.”

“When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe. As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.”

Source : Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.236, World Scientific

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

“I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five,”

“But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.”

“I go to bed at 2 a.m. and get up at 7 a.m. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely get sick every month-and-a-half.”

“Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.”

“The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.”

“I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.”

Source : "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Benjamin Walker on Dancing Ballet and His Repo-Man Days". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. January 21, 2013.

“I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.”