Ethel Waters Quotes

• All my life I’ve been prejudiced against wealthy people.

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• I am an isolationist.

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• All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

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• I have reason to be shy. I’ve been hurt plenty.

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• I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

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• I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.

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

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• There’s no hypocrisy in Hell’s Kitchen.

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• Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.

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• Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

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• We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

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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.

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  Topics in Family, Mother

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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.

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  Topics in Emotion

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• There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

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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.

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• The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn’t know me. They wouldn’t drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn’t come down.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Ethel Waters (39)

Birth:	31st October, 1896
Death:	1st September, 1977
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Singer

About

Ethel Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. She was an American blues and jazz singer and actress. Her best-known recordings include "Dinah," "Stormy Weather," "Taking a Chance on Love," "Heat Wave," "Supper Time," "Am I Blue?" and "Cabin in the Sky," as well as her version of the spiritual "His Eye Is on the Sparrow." She was the second African-American, after Hattie McDaniel, to be nominated for an Academy Award. Her role in several films include: Cabin in the Sky, Pinky, The Member of the Wedding, Rufus Jones for President, Tales of Manhattan, The Heart Is a Rebel, and Carib Gold.

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