Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
EARTHA KITTIn the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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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 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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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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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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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 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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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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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 punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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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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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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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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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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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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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 have to keep testing myself.
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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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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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