Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
EARTHA KITTWhenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
-
-
I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
EARTHA KITT -
I used to teach dance lessons.
EARTHA KITT -
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 -
Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
EARTHA KITT -
Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
EARTHA KITT -
I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
EARTHA KITT -
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 KITT -
I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
EARTHA KITT -
When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
EARTHA KITT -
I was considered an ugly duckling.
EARTHA KITT -
I don’t carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it’s the general public that made me – not any one particular group. So I don’t think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
EARTHA KITT -
I’ve always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
EARTHA KITT -
In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
EARTHA KITT -
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.
EARTHA KITT -
Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
EARTHA KITT