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I did the best I could with the tools I had and the opportunities given me. My life was screwed up early by getting pregnant at 15 and married, then a baby at 16, then divorced at 17. But in spite of that start, I've done all right.

It's been my heart's desire to direct since I started doing movies. I directed two films in the '70s and '80s. One was a feature-length documentary. But I've still not made my debut with a big film. I'm working on doing that now... So why has it taken me so long? Because it was hard as a "sexpot", as I was labeled in the '60s and '70s, to have people take me seriously as a producer or director. They would rather see me without my clothes on.

[working with Elvis] I wish I'd never worked with Elvis. Sometimes you meet someone who could be your idol; but, after the meeting, you're so disappointed that you don't like them anymore.

I am basically a comedienne, I always have been. The sex [in her films] has always been 'comedy sex'. A lot of the serious dramatic roles I've played, I've thought to myself, 'Oh God, they were dreary.' I like the pacing of comedy, the excitement of it.

[on regretting her 1960 Playboy Playmate magazine shoot] I had been dropped from my contract at 20th Century Fox, didn't know a soul in Los Angeles and had a child to support.