Eartha Kitt Quotes

I'm a total performer.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

Clint Eastwood, to me, is Clint Eastwood. He's great at being Clint Eastwood. But, I don't know how to be that guy. I just don't know how to be one person.

I'm a normal guy at heart. But on stage, they don't pay me for normal.

I've always been a performer.

I'm still the same guy who gets in front of the mic and just sings.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I am a performer; that's what I like to do.

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.

I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.

The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

I'm a performer.

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

I'm not really an impersonator.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.

There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona - which is something I love about acting: you play a character, you leave and you get to be yourself again.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?