Esther Williams Quotes
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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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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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Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.
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No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.
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I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.
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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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Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.
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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.
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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.
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I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.
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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 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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Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.
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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.