In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
EARTHA KITTEven as a child, I found a way to survive.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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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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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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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’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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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 stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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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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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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 was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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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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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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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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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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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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