All Ethel Waters Quotes
We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.
Ethel Waters
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I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
Ethel Waters
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It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
Ethel Waters
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There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.
Ethel Waters
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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.
Ethel Waters
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Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.
Ethel Waters
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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
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I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.
Ethel Waters
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When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
Ethel Waters
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Ethel Waters
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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.
Ethel Waters
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