The audience has always been my best director.
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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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 fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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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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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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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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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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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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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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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.
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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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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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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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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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