Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
EARTHA KITTOrson 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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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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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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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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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’m an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
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I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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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 don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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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 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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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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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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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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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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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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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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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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I have to keep testing myself.
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