Ethel Waters

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

— Ethel Waters

#business #great #show #show business #supply

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#blues #emotional #had #outlet #people

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#hypocrisy #kitchen

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

#depend #entire #excited #future #i

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

— Ethel Waters

#bring #day #good #good news #may

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

#again #back #go #grown #hard

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

#bathtub #big #had #kitchen #lard

When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#dominate #emotions #heavily #other #pay

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

#close friend #columbus #dropped #friend #guide

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

#greatest #greatest importance #importance #job #just