What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit

I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.