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

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.
- Esther Williams Quote

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.
- Esther Williams Quote

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.
- Esther Williams Quote

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.
- Esther Williams Quote

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

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.
- Esther Williams Quote

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

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.
- Esther Williams Quote

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.
- Esther Williams Quote

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.
- Esther Williams Quote

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.
- Esther Williams Quote

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

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

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.
- Esther Williams Quote

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.
- Esther Williams Quote

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.
- Esther Williams Quote

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
- Esther Williams Quote

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
- Esther Williams Quote

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

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.
- Esther Williams Quote

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

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.
- Esther Williams Quote