I used to teach dance lessons.
EARTHA KITTWe’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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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 considered an ugly duckling.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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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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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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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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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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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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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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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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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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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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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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