Tommy Kirk Quotes

"Even more than MGM, Disney (in the early 1960s) was the most conservative studio in town....They were growing aware. They weren`t stupid. They could add two and two, and I think they were beginning to suspect my homosexuality. I noticed people in certain quarters were getting less and less friendly....In 1963 Disney didn`t renew my option and let me go. But Walt let me return to do the final Merlin Jones movie, `The Monkey`s Uncle,` because those were moneymakers for the studio."

"In the 1960s all my social life was underground gay. It was my own life. I kept it separate from work, where I went on publicity dates with Annette Funicello or Roberta Shore."

I got sick of it and I just stopped.

(on why he quit acting) I got sick of it and I just stopped.

In 1965, I`d signed a contract for `The Sons of Katie Elder` with John Wayne, but a week before shooting I went to a Hollywood party that the vice squad busted because of marijuana. I was handcuffed and photos of me got in the papers with headlines like `Ex-Disney Child Star Arrested for Pot!` So Wayne and the producers fired me.