The audience has always been my best director.
EARTHA KITTI never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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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 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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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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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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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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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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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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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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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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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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