You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.

None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.