Ethel Waters Quotes


We are all gifted. That is our inheritance. Ethel Waters Gifted 97
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence. Ethel Waters Intelligence 79
We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can. Ethel Waters Mom 67
Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me. Ethel Waters Business 59
I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family. Ethel Waters Family 58
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners. Ethel Waters Uncategorized 57
I am an isolationist. Ethel Waters Uncategorized 54
Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news. Ethel Waters Uncategorized 54
I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own. Ethel Waters Family 53
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them. Ethel Waters Family 52
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. Ethel Waters Uncategorized 51
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 Mom 47
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. Ethel Waters Success 47
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 Teen 45
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic. Ethel Waters Life 45
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 Death 43
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. Ethel Waters Uncategorized 42
I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider. Ethel Waters Uncategorized 41
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. Ethel Waters America 40
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 38
There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business. Ethel Waters Business 37
No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer. Ethel Waters Uncategorized 37
New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been. Ethel Waters Uncategorized 36
Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me. Ethel Waters Mother 36
I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty. Ethel Waters Uncategorized 34
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 Family 31
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 Uncategorized 29

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