I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
EARTHA KITTI don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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I’m an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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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 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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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
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Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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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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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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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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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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