Quotes

[on her "qualifications" for playing the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1955)] I couldn't act, but I could swing through the trees.

[on German director Carl Junghans, her director on River Goddesses (1952)] [He] openly said women should be kept in concentration camps for breeding purposes only: that's all we were good for.

[on describing her family during her childhood] We were a typical, big Irish family, we could fight like cats and dogs, but if you picked on any one of us, you'd have all of us on your neck.

[on how the comic book heroine Sheena was an inspiration towards her during her youth long before she actually portrayed the character on TV] I used to play among the trees and make believe I was Sheena, and that my brother was Tarzan.

[on her response towards the cameraman who commented on how after she completed her audition for the role of Sheena that she really looked like an open field runner who had lived in a jungle her whole life] Well, I'm a country girl, I know how to run.