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.
EARTHA KITTAging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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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 punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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Orson 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.
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I was a street dancer.
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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 think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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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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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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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 used to teach dance lessons.
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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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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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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’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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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.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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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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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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