I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
EARTHA KITTMy recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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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 don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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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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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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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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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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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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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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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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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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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 don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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’ve always been multi-cultural myself. I’m not black and I’m not white and I’m not pink and I’m not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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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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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.
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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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