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.

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.

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.

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 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.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

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