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.
EARTHA KITTA lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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 love to tease men with my legs.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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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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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 punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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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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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 fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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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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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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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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