People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
EARTHA KITTWhenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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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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I’ve always been multi-cultural myself. I’m not black and I’m not white and I’m not pink and I’m not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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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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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.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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