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.
EARTHA KITTA 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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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The audience has always been my best director.
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Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it’s fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
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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 was considered an ugly duckling.
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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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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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I don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I’m an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
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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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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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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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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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I don’t carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it’s the general public that made me – not any one particular group. So I don’t think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
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