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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'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. "

" I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I used to teach dance lessons. "

" I love men and I like to get their attention. "

" 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. "

" Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things. "

Material Things

" Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland. "

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

" 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. "

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

" People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as. "

" 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! "

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

" You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy. "

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

" I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. "

" 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. "

" Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I was considered an ugly duckling. "

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

" I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute. "