Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
EARTHA KITTHaving my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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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 was a street dancer.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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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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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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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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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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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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