Ethel Waters Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Inspiración, Adolescente, Gente

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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 had a probing mind and an elephant memory.

  Ethel Waters

  Memories, Elephants, Mind

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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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• En toda su vida, mamá nunca ganó más de cinco o seis dólares a la semana. Como no tenía marido, le resultaba difícil encontrar un lugar donde vivir.

  Ethel Waters

  Mom, Husband, Life Is Hard

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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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

  Ethel Waters

  Mother, Evangelism, Release

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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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• 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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