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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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.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.
Ethel Waters
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
Ethel Waters
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
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
Ethel Waters
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
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