I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
EARTHA KITTThe river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it’s a part of live entertainment.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me ‘yellow gal.’ I was caught in between both sides – nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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I’ve always been multi-cultural myself. I’m not black and I’m not white and I’m not pink and I’m not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don’t know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn’t supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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You don’t move just because you want to go from this point to that point – the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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