Esther Williams Quotes

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

Mermaid, Clark, Gable

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

Funny, Betrayal, Long

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.
Esther Williams

Life, Everything, Almost

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

Time, Home, Night

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

Job, Order, Took

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

Daily, Took, Presence

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

Strong, Football, Hard

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

Feet, Air, Gold

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

Marriage, Security, Pay

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

Science, Mother, Mind

Critics established a snobbery toward me.
Esther Williams

Toward, Critics, Snobbery

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.
Esther Williams

Money, Husband, Away

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, Wanted, Himself

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

Movies, Made, Movie

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

Life, After, Granted

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

Metal, Plant, Restaurant

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

True, Gave, Mgm

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

Time, Thought, Around

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

Time, Everything, Him

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

Funny, Women, Control

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.
Esther Williams

Movies, Long, Done

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, Sensation

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

Life, Sports, Three

Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.
Esther Williams

Once, Married, Invisible

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

Strength, Girl, Character

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Nationality: American

Born: August 8, 1921

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