My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
EARTHA KITTLive theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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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 am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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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 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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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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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 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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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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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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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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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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