All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic. Ethel Waters More Quotes by Ethel Waters More Quotes From 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. Ethel Waters technique acting play 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 spades gloves white I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business. Ethel Waters i-dont-care care dresses I had a probing mind and an elephant memory. Ethel Waters elephants mind memories I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you. Ethel Waters gang sleep men I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough. Ethel Waters saint enough men I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up. Ethel Waters wedlock born I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow. Ethel Waters brows sweat able You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you. Ethel Waters you family mother love No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer. Ethel Waters ella-fitzgerald beat singer world
