I had a normal life; we didn't meet movie stars. We lived in Texas where you had rollerskates, and if you got a bicycle, that was a very big gift.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My first year and a half in Hollywood, I did three films. Then in 1959, I was in 'Gidget,' 'Imitation of Life' and 'A Summer Place.' After that, I was a star. It was fun.
When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?
I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.
My parents had a long and eventful marriage and were always a bit like movie stars to me when they were young.
I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.
I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.
My only real contact with what my father did was that he could get 16-millimeter prints, so every weekend we would show two or three movies at home. But our house wasn't frequented by stars. My father's personal life was his personal life, and it was separate from his professional life.
I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friend's boat in Panama two years later. It was the perfect wedding for two people who'd already been married and who weren't teenagers.
When I was a very young actor, I cruised around in a pretty cool vehicle called the Starship Enterprise.