Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
EARTHA KITTI used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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 think I ever really got interested in theater.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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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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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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I was a street dancer.
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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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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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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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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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