"Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old."
"It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten."
"They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent."
"Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo."
"We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess."
"I like to take afternoon naps in the nude."
"I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot."
"I like to paint nudes mostly."
"And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas."
"Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity."
"One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up."
"None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well."
"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
"You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts."
"Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games."
