And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.
Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.
Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old.
Ever since that Jack Eigen kiss incident, people don't ask me for my autograph any more.
I like to paint nudes mostly.
I like to take afternoon naps in the nude.
I made a number of pictures, strictly C-pictures that were done on small budgets with a crackerjack director and actor who's now dead, Hugo Haas.
I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous.
I notice Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe get as much attention as Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren.
I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.
It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten.
Mostly, though, I like to paint.
None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well.
One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.
So I end up using about ten tubes of lipstick a day. I've even had to buy a darker kind than I prefer to wear in order to make a better print.
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.
They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.
They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along.
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.
Well, I'm 38 here and 22 around here - and 38 down here.
You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.
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