Ethel Waters Quotes - Page 3

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• New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

  Ethel Waters

  New York, Cities, Philadelphia

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• There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

  Ethel Waters

  Business, Undertaker, Shows

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• I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

  Ethel Waters

  Couple, Beer, Giving

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• There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

  Ethel Waters

  White, Individual, Type

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• I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

  Ethel Waters

  Black History, Black, Depends

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• I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

  Ethel Waters

  Men, Saint, Enough

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• I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

  Ethel Waters

  Wedlock, Born

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• I had always loved John Ford's 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

  Fog, Used, Treatment

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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

  Mom, Husband, Life Is Hard

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• I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.

  Ethel Waters

  Memories, Elephants, Mind

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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

  Play, Acting, Technique

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• When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

  Ethel Waters

  Age, Firsts, Stage

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• What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.

  Ethel Waters

  New York, House, Apartment

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• What broke Mom's heart was realizing that her children knew nothing and cared nothing about the better side of life.

  Ethel Waters

  Mom, Children, Heart

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• My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

  Ethel Waters

  My Family, Whole Family, Instruments

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• Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.

  Ethel Waters

  Long, Agents, Today

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• Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.

  Ethel Waters

  Catholic, Church, Protestants

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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

  Ohio, Mohawks, Columbus

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• If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty.

  Ethel Waters

  Mean, Want, Nasty

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