Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
EARTHA KITTThe audience has always been my best director.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it’s fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
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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 an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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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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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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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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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 the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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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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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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