Esther Williams Quotes

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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.
• 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,…
• Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.
• 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.
• I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.
• 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…
• I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.
• I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.
• 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…
• 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…
• There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it
• I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers
• Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues
• I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air
• 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…
• 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…
• No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.
• 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…
• The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.

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