Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for o….

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.

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.

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minist….

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..

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 took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her firs….

It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious.

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

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 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 everythi….

I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant..

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid..

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

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light..

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 ….

I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood..

Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it..