Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
EARTHA KITTI stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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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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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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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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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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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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 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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Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
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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 used to teach dance lessons.
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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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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