Eartha Kitt Quotes

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Eartha Kitt

Profession : Actress

Birth : January 17, 1927

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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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

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I love to tease men with my legs.

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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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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

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

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

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

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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

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

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

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I was considered an ugly duckling.

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

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I am the original 'Material Girl.'

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