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

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

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 gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.

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.