Eartha Kitt

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I was a street dancer.

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.

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.

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

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

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'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.

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

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

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

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.

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

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