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"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."
"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 ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant."
"I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you."
"We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one."
"I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood."
"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"
"Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues"
"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."
"Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal."
"The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming."
"I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know"
"Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world."
"By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light."
"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."