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Ethel Waters

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I am an isolationist.


— Ethel Waters


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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


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


— Ethel Waters


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I never was a child.


— Ethel Waters


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


— Ethel Waters


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I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.


— 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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I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.


— Ethel Waters


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Despite these successes her brilliant career was fading. She had three gigs at this point; in addition to the show Ethel Waters starred in a national radio program and continued to work in nightclubs. I never was cuddled or liked or understood by my family.

Waters was the second African American after Hattie McDaniel to be nominated for an Academy Award. She frequently performed jazz big band and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts although Ethel Waters began her career in the 1920s singing blues.

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