Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

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

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.

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

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.