Ethel Waters Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

Ethel Waters quotes and sayings page 4 (deceased musician born on Oct 31, 1900). These are the last 10 out of 40 quotes we have for her.

“All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.”

“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.”

“My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.”

“I never was a child.”

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

“New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”