Top 60 Ethel Waters Quotes (2024 Update)
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Ethel Waters Quote: “There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.”

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

— Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters Quote: “I’ve never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.”

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

— Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters Quote: “The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I’d have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.”

53. “The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I’d have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.”

— Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters Quote: “When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I’ve known during my lifetime.”

54. “When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I’ve known during my lifetime.”

— Ethel Waters

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

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

— Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters Quote: “You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.”

56. “You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.”

— Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters Quote: “I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.”

57. “I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.”

— Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters Quote: “I could always open shows, perform through the middle, and close shows.”

58. “I could always open shows, perform through the middle, and close shows.”

— Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters Quote: “Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.”

59. “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

Ethel Waters Quote: “Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.”

60. “Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.”

— Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters Quote: “I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.”

61. “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

Ethel Waters Quote: “If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.”

62. “If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.”

— Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters Quote: “When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.”

63. “When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.”

— Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters Quote: “If I wanted pity, I got it because I’m illegitimate. And when I didn’t want it I was mean and nasty.”

64. “If I wanted pity, I got it because I’m illegitimate. And when I didn’t want it I was mean and nasty.”

— Ethel Waters

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

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

— Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters Quote: “I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.”

66. “I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.”

— Ethel Waters

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