“Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the v…” — Ethel Waters

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

I am an isolationist.

I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.

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.