Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
EARTHA KITTIn essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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 see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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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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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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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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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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The audience has always been my best director.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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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 wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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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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