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.
EARTHA KITTYou 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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I was a street dancer.
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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 used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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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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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody’s business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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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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Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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