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

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

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

Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.

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.

Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.