Esther Williams Quotations

No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

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

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

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.

The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.

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.

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

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.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

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.