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" 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. "

Eartha Kitt

Country

You

Truth

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" I was a street dancer. "

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Street

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

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

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

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

" I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child. "

Eartha Kitt

Illegitimate

Child

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Eartha Kitt

Television

Movies

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

" Even as a child, I found a way to survive. "

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

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I Am

Cabaret

" If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money. "

" I am the original 'Material Girl.' "

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

" The public has become my fairy godmother. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Eartha Kitt

Bother

Describe

" 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. "

" The audience has always been my best director. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "