"When I was discovered, I was doing Chekhov. I was in 'The Three Sisters' off-Broadway, and I went from 'Three Sisters' to 'Gidget Goes Hawaiian.' I rode on a 6th Avenue bus from one end of Manhattan to another, crying my eyes out. 'Gidget' was so huge, I guess I knew on that bus that day that part of my dream of being a serious actress was kind of destroyed." "I wasn't really a movie fan. I lived in New York City; I was an actress on the stage and did some television out of New York. But I was so wrapped up in theater, and this was my dream - I was going to be a Broadway star - that I didn't pay too much attention to film. I was actually quite disappointed when I got the part to begin with." - DW, referring to her "Gidget" film role "I get things from 14-year-olds, and 15-year-olds, 16, 17, you know saying 'Gidget Goes Hawaiian is my favorite movie' and 'I loved you in this and that.' And they know everything I've done, or at least everything that's available on video, or has been played on television. And it's so different from what's going on today. Maybe that's the appeal. It is so diametrically different. It's so clean and fresh and fun-filled, as opposed to the movies they make for teenagers today."

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