My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

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 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.

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

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.