Quotes by Esther Williams

Esther Williams

Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn’t believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn’t do was sink.

Beautiful

Teaching

Teenager

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

Eye

Home

Night

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

Firsts

Mermaid

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.

Drinking

Gambling

Husband

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

Ideals

Teenage

Teenage Life

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.

Business

Use

Vegas

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.

Movie

Swimming

Would Be

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

Granted

Hollywood

Would Be

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

Buying

Gas Stations

Plant

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

Mgm

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Done

Dream

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Eye

Father

Feet

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Football

Gambling

Gas Stations

Girl

Gold

Granted

Health

Hints

Hollywood

Home

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Husband

Ideals

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Mgm

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Quotes by Esther Williams

Esther Williams

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.

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.

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