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.
EARTHA KITTThe audience has always been my best director.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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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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Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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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 was considered an ugly duckling.
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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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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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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 never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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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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