I was considered an ugly duckling.
EARTHA KITTLive theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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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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The audience has always been my best director.
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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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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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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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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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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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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 have to keep testing myself.
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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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Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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I 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.
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