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.

I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

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

No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.