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Ethel Waters Quotes
After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadnt annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded. - Ethel Waters Quotes
All my life Ive been prejudiced against wealthy people. - Ethel Waters Quotes
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic. - Ethel Waters Quotes
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didnt want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again. - Ethel Waters Quotes
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners. - Ethel Waters Quotes
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence. - Ethel Waters Quotes
I am an isolationist. - Ethel Waters Quotes
I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own. - Ethel Waters Quotes
I had always loved John Fords pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me. - Ethel Waters Quotes
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. Thats why I cant play any role that isnt based on something in my life. - Ethel Waters Quotes
I have reason to be shy. Ive been hurt plenty. - Ethel Waters Quotes
I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever. - Ethel Waters Quotes
I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider. - Ethel Waters Quotes
I never was a child. - Ethel Waters Quotes
I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family. - Ethel Waters Quotes
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but theres something in me that prevents me from handing it out. - Ethel Waters Quotes
I wanted to be with the kind of people Id grown up with, but you cant go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try. - Ethel Waters Quotes
Ive never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow. - Ethel Waters Quotes
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live. - Ethel Waters Quotes
It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays. - Ethel Waters Quotes
Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didnt live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me. - Ethel Waters Quotes
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me. - Ethel Waters Quotes
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them. - Ethel Waters Quotes
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. - Ethel Waters Quotes
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. - Ethel Waters Quotes
No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer. - Ethel Waters Quotes
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down. - Ethel Waters Quotes
Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me. - Ethel Waters Quotes
The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didnt know me. They wouldnt drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldnt come down. - Ethel Waters Quotes
The first time I sang after my throat operation was one of the tensest times of my life. But my voice proved to have a clearer tone than ever before. - Ethel Waters Quotes
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