I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
EARTHA KITTMaybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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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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We’re not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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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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I have to keep testing myself.
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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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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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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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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