I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
EARTHA KITTI was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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 was considered an ugly duckling.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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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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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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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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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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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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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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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 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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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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