I was considered an ugly duckling.
EARTHA KITTI’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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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 fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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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 wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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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 love men and I like to get their attention.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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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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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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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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