Esther Williams

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal. ”

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

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

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

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

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 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. ”

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. ”

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

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