I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
EARTHA KITTI’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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
-
-
The audience has always been my best director.
EARTHA KITT -
I was a street dancer.
EARTHA KITT -
Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
EARTHA KITT -
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.
EARTHA KITT -
In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
EARTHA KITT -
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.
EARTHA KITT -
I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
EARTHA KITT -
Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
EARTHA KITT -
Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
EARTHA KITT -
Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
EARTHA KITT -
I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
EARTHA KITT -
I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
EARTHA KITT -
I was considered an ugly duckling.
EARTHA KITT -
I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
EARTHA KITT -
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.
EARTHA KITT