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

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.

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.

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.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

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