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Eartha Kitt

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I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.
EARTHA KITT I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not ...
EARTHA KITT Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affectio...
EARTHA KITT When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing—in tune!—and th...
EARTHA KITT 'Boomerang!' I love that movie just because of Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy, Grac...
DREW SIDORA I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
NANCY REAGAN You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with ...
RYAN MURPHY Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
EARTHA KITT Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
EARTHA KITT You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
EARTHA KITT I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
EARTHA KITT I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really su...
EARTHA KITT Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
EARTHA KITT I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
EARTHA KITT Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
EARTHA KITT People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've alwa...
EARTHA KITT Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imaginatio...
EARTHA KITT Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of pove...
EARTHA KITT I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
EARTHA KITT I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
EARTHA KITT When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in pr...
EARTHA KITT When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to acce...
EARTHA KITT I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territo...
EARTHA KITT My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happe...
EARTHA KITT I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
EARTHA KITT Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
EARTHA KITT I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love...
EARTHA KITT Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out ove...
EARTHA KITT I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest fami...
EARTHA KITT It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates yo...
EARTHA KITT My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
EARTHA KITT The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where ...
EARTHA KITT Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't s...
EARTHA KITT Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
EARTHA KITT We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain yo...
EARTHA KITT I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody...
EARTHA KITT The public has become my fairy godmother.
EARTHA KITT I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
EARTHA KITT Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
EARTHA KITT You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.
EARTHA KITT The one thing I always knew about my mother was that she always loved me, ... And I give her tremend...
EARTHA KITT I'm in and out of all the areas of the business. But of course the main thing is singing and acting.
EARTHA KITT I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
EARTHA KITT I love to tease men with my legs.
EARTHA KITT Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
EARTHA KITT I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had s...
EARTHA KITT I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, ...
EARTHA KITT I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.
EARTHA KITT Folk Tales of the Tribes of Africa.
EARTHA KITT My aunt, or whoever it was, who brought me from the South, would have killed me, because she didn't ...
EARTHA KITT Range Rover Saved Me from Injury
EARTHA KITT Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
EARTHA KITT I was considered an ugly duckling.
EARTHA KITT I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honest...
EARTHA KITT I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it&#...
EARTHA KITT Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
EARTHA KITT This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as i...
EARTHA KITT I used to teach dance lessons.
EARTHA KITT You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be us...
EARTHA KITT I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is goi...
EARTHA KITT If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
EARTHA KITT I have to keep testing myself.
EARTHA KITT The audience has always been my best director.
EARTHA KITT I love men and I like to get their attention.
EARTHA KITT Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
EARTHA KITT I was a street dancer.
EARTHA KITT In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
EARTHA KITT A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. S...
EARTHA KITT I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, wi...
EARTHA KITT If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy,...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they...
WYCLEF JEAN I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. A...
MICK JAGGER I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin...
JIMMY DEAN I think I'm a girl's girl in the sense that I support women a lot, and I'm definitely al...
CHARLI XCX I'm not so interested in technology for technology's sake. I don't need incredibly sophi...
ANNABELLE SELLDORF Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING Even in her casual white shirt and cotton pants, she was clearly an independent woman in charge of h...
JAN MORAN I'd really like to show women my age - who've had children grow up or lost husbands or retir...
KATHERINE HELMOND Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It fel...
KATHERINE HEIGL Sometimes you can just not spend that much money or do a minor change with color on a certain room, ...
KATHERINE LANASA From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing u...
KATHLEEN BATTLE I love working in London.
KATHLEEN ROSE PERKINS I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere...
KATHLEEN TURNER As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. S...
KATHRYN HAHN Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.
KATHY BATES I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.
KATHY BATES The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, o...
KATHY BATES For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same...
KATHY BATES I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever.
KATIE FINNERAN You can go to the Internet and know more than your mom in two seconds. It's crazy how fast teena...
KATIE FINNERAN I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal ...
KATIE FEATHERSTON My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Ki...
KATIE CHANG Chris and I care about each other and we're still friends. Tom is the most incredible man in the...
KATIE HOLMES We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fa...
KATIE HOLMES I wasn't sold on 3-D until it was in my own home. The images jump out at you, even more so than ...
KATIE LECLERC I think it's just important to be always bouncing between TV and theater, and hopefully I'll...
KATIE LOWES I've learned to brush off many things.
KATRINA BOWDEN Not being happy really is my fear.
KEKE PALMER I don't want to be famous for being famous.
KELLI O'HARA I can kick your head off, but I can't, like, play a stupid little video game.
KELLY HU

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EARTHA KITT You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
EARTHA KITT I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
EARTHA KITT I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really su...
EARTHA KITT Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
EARTHA KITT I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
EARTHA KITT Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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EARTHA KITT Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imaginatio...
EARTHA KITT Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of pove...
EARTHA KITT I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
EARTHA KITT I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
EARTHA KITT When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in pr...
EARTHA KITT When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to acce...
EARTHA KITT I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territo...
EARTHA KITT I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not ...
EARTHA KITT My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happe...
EARTHA KITT I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
EARTHA KITT Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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EARTHA KITT Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out ove...
EARTHA KITT I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest fami...
EARTHA KITT It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates yo...
EARTHA KITT My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
EARTHA KITT The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where ...
EARTHA KITT Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't s...
EARTHA KITT Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
EARTHA KITT We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain yo...
EARTHA KITT I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody...
EARTHA KITT The public has become my fairy godmother.
EARTHA KITT I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
EARTHA KITT Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
EARTHA KITT You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.
EARTHA KITT The one thing I always knew about my mother was that she always loved me, ... And I give her tremend...
EARTHA KITT I'm in and out of all the areas of the business. But of course the main thing is singing and acting.
EARTHA KITT I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
EARTHA KITT I love to tease men with my legs.
EARTHA KITT Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
EARTHA KITT I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had s...
EARTHA KITT I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, ...
EARTHA KITT I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.
EARTHA KITT Folk Tales of the Tribes of Africa.
EARTHA KITT My aunt, or whoever it was, who brought me from the South, would have killed me, because she didn't ...
EARTHA KITT Range Rover Saved Me from Injury
EARTHA KITT Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
EARTHA KITT I was considered an ugly duckling.
EARTHA KITT I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honest...
EARTHA KITT I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it&#...
EARTHA KITT Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
EARTHA KITT This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as i...
EARTHA KITT I used to teach dance lessons.
EARTHA KITT You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be us...
EARTHA KITT I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is goi...
EARTHA KITT I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.
EARTHA KITT If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
EARTHA KITT I have to keep testing myself.
EARTHA KITT The audience has always been my best director.
EARTHA KITT I love men and I like to get their attention.
EARTHA KITT Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
EARTHA KITT I was a street dancer.
EARTHA KITT In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
EARTHA KITT A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. S...
EARTHA KITT I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, wi...
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SELENA KITT She tasted sweet, like oranges, liquid sunshine in my mouth as we kissed, our tongues playing togeth...
SELENA KITT About everyone on staff helps out for trivia.
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SELENA KITT Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
SELENA KITT I'm kind of used to it.
KITT FLOWERS Last year I finished in the 20s. This has probably been my best season ever.
KITT FLOWERS I kind of gave it away at the bottom of the pitch. I hit a bump, and got back, but lost my line.
KITT FLOWERS This is the most intense week of preparation. Being here is important.
KITT BURROUGHS It's getting word out enough to generate buzz and drum up enthusiasm.
KITT BURROUGHS It's a fun way to learn business skills, and it's a trivia contest, so it adds an element of silline...
KITT BURROUGHS You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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