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.
EARTHA KITTI 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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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A 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.
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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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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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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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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I’ve always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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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 was considered an ugly duckling.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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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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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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