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

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

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

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.

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

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.

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.