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Ethel Waters

"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."

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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."

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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."

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

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

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"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."

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

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"I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out."

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"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."

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

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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."

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