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 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 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.

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 ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it

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