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.
Eartha KittRead
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.
Interpretation
The speaker feels a deep connection with their fans, seeing them as a surrogate family.
Eartha Kitt expresses her feelings of being an orphan and finding solace and belonging in her relationship with her fans. She views her supporters as her family, illustrating the profound bond that can exist between a performer and their audience, transcending traditional family structures.
In practice
During a speech at a fan convention, I would quote this to emphasize the importance of fan support.
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.
Itβs all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.
The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says youβre entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.
I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.
Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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.
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
I didn't know every day I would be discussing the tone of my voice with my wife. I thought it was a marriage. Apparently, it's a musical.
Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?
I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.
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