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Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.

Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.

I don't think I could have thought of any place other than Stanford to leave Harvard for.

I really want to go to Harvard; it's just a matter of timing.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.