Eartha Kitt Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“I have to keep testing myself.”

“I was considered an ugly duckling.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.”

“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?”