Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. 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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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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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 used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
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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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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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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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Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
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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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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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I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.
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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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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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I love men and I like to get their attention.