Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

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

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

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.

I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air

Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.