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

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

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.

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.

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.

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