I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
EARTHA KITTI 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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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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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I’ve always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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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 punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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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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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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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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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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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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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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