Eartha Kitt Quotes

#1. I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.

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#2. Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

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#3. I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.

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#4. 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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#5. You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

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#6. 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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#7. I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock.

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. Sometimes it's good to fall down to see who will pick you up.

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#11. 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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#12. I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

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#13. In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.

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#14. Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

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#15. The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

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#16. A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

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#17. I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.

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#18. Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.

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#19. 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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#20. If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

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#21. I have to keep testing myself.

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#22. I was a street dancer.

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#23. The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.

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#24. Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.

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#25. I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

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#26. I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.

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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. I was considered an ugly duckling.

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#30. I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me.

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#31. Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

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#32. Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

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#33. People these days are thinking less and drinking more.

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#34. I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

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#35. I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.

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#36. I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

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#37. When the Batman TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman.

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#38. I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

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#39. I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.

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#40. My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

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#41. 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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#42. Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.

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#43. I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.

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#44. 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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#45. I love being in America. I used to love traveling and I am glad that I was able to go around the world. I still love to go to Europe, but I always want to come home.

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#46. Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

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#47. I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

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#48. I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy.

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#49. It's best if you can do things with a sense of humor and finesse.

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#50. I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt ... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.

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#51. I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.

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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

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#55. Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

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#56. A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.

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#57. I love to tease men with my legs.

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#58. The audience has always been my best director.

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#59. When my baby was born I had to know how to save her in case she fell in the pool or something like that. I went to one of these nursing places to learn how to take care of the child.

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#60. 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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#61. Thank God I got the rejects. These animals are very, very affectionate.

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#62. Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

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#63. Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

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#64. In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman in Batman: The Animated Series.

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#65. I sent my daughter 40 roses last November because I thought she was 40. And she laughed her head off. She is not going to be 40 until this year!

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#66. I used to teach dance lessons.

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#67. I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

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#68. As the Batman TV series was returning to ABC for its second season in 1967, the TV bosses decided to take Catwoman into another direction ... lucky for me.

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#69. I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.

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#70. I was invited to a luncheon with 49 other women to give my opinions about the problematic situation among young people. They wanted me to talk about why is there so much juvenile delinquency in the streets of America.

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#71. It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

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#72. When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing - in tune! - and the audience loved it.
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#73. Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

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#74. I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

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#75. I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

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#76. I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.

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#77. I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

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#78. I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

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#79. I am the original 'Material Girl.'

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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

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#83. Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

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#84. The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

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#85. 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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#86. I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

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#87. The public has become my fairy godmother.

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#88. 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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#89. I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

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#90. 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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#91. 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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#92. You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.

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#93. Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

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#94. 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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#95. The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says you're entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.

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#96. In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

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#97. 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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#98. I love men and I like to get their attention.

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#99. I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

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#100. Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

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