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.
EARTHA KITTGreed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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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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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.
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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 am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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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 used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I’m an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
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I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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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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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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Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
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I was a street dancer.
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