People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
EARTHA KITTI don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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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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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 last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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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’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 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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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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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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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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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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I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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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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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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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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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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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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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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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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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