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"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."
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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
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"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."
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"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."
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"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."
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"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."
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"When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world."
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"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"
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"I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl."
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"I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies."
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"Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about?"
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"I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air."
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"I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood."
Life
"With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all."
Life
"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 first swimming pool."
Character
"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."
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"By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light."
Home
"I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage."
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"Critics established a snobbery toward me."
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"Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world."
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