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
Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep desire for connection and acceptance from an audience.
Eartha Kitt's quote reflects the vulnerability and longing for affection that performers often feel when they take the stage. It suggests that beyond entertainment, artists seek a genuine emotional response from their audience, seeking validation and connection through their performance.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the importance of human connection.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My own observation is: lovers don't surrender to each other, they surrender to something unknown that exists between them. They surrender to love - call it the 'god of love' - they both surrender to the god of love. Hence nobody's ego is fulfilled by your surrender; both the egos disappear in love.
If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices.
And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted his love to be the wine and bread, and the blood and flesh. He reached for her, a dangerous stranger in a city of dangerous strangers, but she turned away from him and walked unsteadily through the crowd. How many loveless people walk among the barely loved?
Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world.
I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.
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