I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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 am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
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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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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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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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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 was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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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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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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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 think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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You don’t move just because you want to go from this point to that point – the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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My house was bugged. They couldn’t find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don’t like some of the things the government is doing.
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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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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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