Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
EARTHA KITTGreed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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The audience has always been my best director.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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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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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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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 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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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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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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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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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 am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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 am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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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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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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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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Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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