We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

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

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.

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

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 always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.