Esther Williams Quotes

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

  Esther Williams

  Inspiration, Health, Two

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

  Esther Williams

  Wisdom, Teaching, Athlete

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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.

  Esther Williams

  Mother, Sunday, Training

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

  Esther Williams

  Marriage, Shelter, Pay

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• 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.

  Esther Williams

  Girl, Character, Swimming

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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

  Esther Williams

  Water, Audience, Invited

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

  Esther Williams

  Hollywood, Would Be, Granted

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

  Esther Williams

  Air, Feet, Mermaid

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

  Esther Williams

  Swim, Beverly Hills, Hospitality

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

  Esther Williams

  Mermaid, Firsts

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• Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.

  Esther Williams

  Beautiful, Teenager, Believe

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

  Esther Williams

  Winning, Medal, Olympic Medals

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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.

  Esther Williams

  Running, New York, Stars

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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.

  Esther Williams

  Football, Strong, Swimming

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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.

  Esther Williams

  Office, Yards, Firsts

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

  Esther Williams

  Home, Swimming, Hints

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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.

  Esther Williams

  Movie, Swimming, Would Be

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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.

  Esther Williams

  Business, Vegas, Use

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

  Esther Williams

  Men, Swag, Together

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• I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.

  Esther Williams

  Jobs, Order, Swim

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

  Esther Williams

  Gas Stations, Buying, Plant

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

  Esther Williams

  Girl, Sports, Issues

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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.

  Esther Williams

  Betrayal, Sight, Long

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

  Esther Williams

  Drinking, Men, Lunch

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

  Esther Williams

  Mgm

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