"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."

"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."

"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'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot."

"Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity."

"Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old."

"One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up."

"I like to take afternoon naps in the nude."

"Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo."