Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
EARTHA KITTI had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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My house was bugged. They couldn’t find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don’t like some of the things the government is doing.
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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 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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I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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