In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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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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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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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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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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I have to keep testing myself.
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I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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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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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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Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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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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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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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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The audience has always been my best director.
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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 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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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 was considered an ugly duckling.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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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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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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