Esther Williams

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.

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 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.

I think Chelsea Handler is the funniest woman.

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.