Top 40 Quotes by Ethel Waters

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.

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.

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

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

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

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

I never was a child.

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

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.