Ethel Waters Quotes
Top 63 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.
Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.
If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.
My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry.
The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.
When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.
Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.
I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.