"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn’t live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
― Ethel Waters
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― Ethel Waters
More From 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."
- "Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
- "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."
More In Mom
- "If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley… It’s nearby and no stress – great food and beautiful walks."― Sadie Frost
- "Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse."― Rebecca West
- "I’ve never had my brows done – I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that’s how I learned."― Emmy Rossum