How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe.

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.

I need freedom to be happy.

Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.

Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor