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

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

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 took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers

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.