Esther Williams quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Esther Williams

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I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

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.

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

Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about?

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

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

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

No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

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

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

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

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

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

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.

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.

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

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.

Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

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.

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.

I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

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.