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 KITTI am the original ‘Material Girl.’
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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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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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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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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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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I have to keep testing myself.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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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 don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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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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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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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.
EARTHA KITT






