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.
EARTHA KITTPeople in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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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 am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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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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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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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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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 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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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 stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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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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