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.
EARTHA KITTIn the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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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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When 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.
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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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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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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 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 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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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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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 used to teach dance lessons.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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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 punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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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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