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


Eartha Kitt

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CHRIS BURKE But ultimately I think that you need to go to either New York for theater or Los Angeles for televis...
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EARTHA KITT The public has become my fairy godmother.
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EARTHA KITT I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.
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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.
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EARTHA KITT I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest fami...
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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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
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