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 was considered an ugly duckling.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I was a street dancer.
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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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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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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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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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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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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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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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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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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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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