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Esther Williams Quotes

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

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

Critics established a snobbery toward me.

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.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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 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 bathing suit.

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.

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