Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
EARTHA KITTThe audience has always been my best director.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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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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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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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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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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Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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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 think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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I was a street dancer.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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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.
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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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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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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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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.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody’s business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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