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Ethel Waters

"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 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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"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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"Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me."
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"Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to 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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"There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen."
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"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."
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"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
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"Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk."
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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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"New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been."
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