People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
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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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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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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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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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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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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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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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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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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You don’t move just because you want to go from this point to that point – the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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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 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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