Esther Williams Quotes

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

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My mother took refuge in her spirituality while my poor father was barely able to bring home enough money to keep food on the table.

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Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.

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Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

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I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

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I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.

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I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

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By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

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I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

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The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

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I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.

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My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

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Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.

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I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

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I need to find some answers, fast. Would you call your doctor and make an appointment for me

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Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.

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I felt a powerful attraction to Victor Mature. I was married, but all the passion and most of the love in that marriage were gone, or going.

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Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

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There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.

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I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.

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My first event was the 100-meter freestyle, the top event of the meet, competing against the best in the nation, over 100 swimmers.

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When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

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I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.

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Fernando certainly lived up to his advance billing God knows he'd had enough practice to have earned a black belt in the bedroom arts.

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It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious.

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