I used to teach dance lessons.
EARTHA KITTI 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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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 wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
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I was a street dancer.
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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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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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I have to keep testing myself.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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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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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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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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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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