I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
EARTHA KITTWhen we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody’s business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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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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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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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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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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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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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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Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it’s fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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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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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 used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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