Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
EARTHA KITTI’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I was a street dancer.
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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’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 punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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We’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.
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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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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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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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The audience has always been my best director.
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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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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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