Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
EARTHA KITTJewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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 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 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 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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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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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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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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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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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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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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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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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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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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