Michael Bergin

“What was it about Carolyn that made her so cautious about revealing herself?”

“Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.”

“The people on Baywatch were about as nice a group of people as I had ever worked with.”

“I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.”

“I didn't know a damn thing about style.”

“I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.”

“A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.”

“I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.”

“We live in a kissy society.”

“I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.”

“It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.”

“My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.”

“I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.”

“We're all pretty ordinary on paper.”

“By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.”

“I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.”

“Thank God for little miracles, right?”

“I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.”

“I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.”

“I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.”