Esther Williams Quotes

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Esther Williams

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 8, 1921

Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.

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I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

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We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

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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.

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Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

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Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

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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.

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

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

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I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.

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With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.

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I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

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There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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