Esther Williams Quotes
What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.
Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers
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.
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.
No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.
Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.
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.
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
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.
Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.
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.
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.
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.
I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.
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.
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
Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues
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.
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
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.
The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.
