Eartha Kitt Quotes

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.

My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

I never got nervous performing my own material.

I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I'm not worthy - I couldn't possibly, and so on and so forth.

There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.

I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.

Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I have a lot to offer.

Yes, sharing super-personal experiences is scary, but I can only get up on stage and perform it if I really connect with the music.

I'm not the kind of person who ever thought, 'Oh, a one-woman show - bring it on!'

I adopted this feeling that the stage is my home, so just keep my coat on and not wear anything else.

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

I've never been heckled. I think because I look too small and vulnerable. Sometimes I look out into the audience and see pity in their eyes, so I guess those people may be the ones who would shout something out if they didn't feel so sorry for me.

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go.

I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.

You hear some people saying, 'I'm alive on stage; it's where I feel most complete...' I don't understand that at all; I find that weird and depressing. I don't dislike the audience; it's just when I'm up there, they're in the darkness. There's just a sound of laughing or not. They're not 'people,' they're this big organism.