I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
EARTHA KITTI used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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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 used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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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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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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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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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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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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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 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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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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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 am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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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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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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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
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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 stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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