Ethel Waters Quotes

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

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• Performances
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• Spades

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• Good things happen when you meet strangers.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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• Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Measure
  • Prosperity
  • Bear

• I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Play
  • Language
  • Silent

• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
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• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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• If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Character
  • Night
  • Day

• I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Think
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• I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Human
  • Conviction
  • Intellect

• I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Today
  • Parents
  • Person

• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Home
  • Remember

• There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Rules
  • China
  • Dare

• I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

  

  Tao Lin
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Focus

• Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Why
  • Think
  • Stop

• Leona Helmsley is a truly evil human being. She treated employees worse than any human being I've ever witnessed and I've dealt with some of the toughest human beings alive.

  

  Donald Trump
  • She
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• I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Small

• Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

  

  Diana Ross
  • Life
  • Knows
  • Life is

• The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Age
  • Excellence
  • Longevity

• If you are not able to do something, that is true for the present, not for the future. All the time there's a chance to go a step further. Not to be frustrated.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Present
  • Chance
  • Frustrated

• I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Idea
  • Right
  • Performances

• Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to? Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Opportunity
  • Audience
  • Challenges

• 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
  • Audience
  • Prove
  • Performances