Facts about Esther Williams
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Esther Williams is a famous Actress from USA, she is still alive and was born August 8, 1921.
Zodiac etc.
She is born under the zodiac leo, who is known for Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative.
Our collection contains 31 quotes who is written / told by Esther.
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Famous quotes by Esther Williams (31)
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Critics established a snobbery toward me"
"Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world"
"The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it"
"I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did"
"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 always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies"
"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"
"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"
"By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light"
"Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen"
"There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it"
"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"
"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 my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers"
"I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant"
"Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues"
"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"
"I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air"
"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 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 always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood"
"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"
"Once I married Fernando, I became invisible"
"Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay"
"I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know"
"Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal"
"Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid"
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