Esther Williams Quotes

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Esther Williams

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 8, 1921

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

Esther Williams

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

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

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Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Critics established a snobbery toward me.

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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.

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

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Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.

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