Get Off My Back (1965)

Eartha Kitt: Betty Coleman

Quotes 

• Betty Coleman : Well, of course, birthdays bring back an awful lot of memories. And, of course tonight my memories go way back. They go back to the time when all of this was unimaginable. I began my drug addiction for kicks. I was what you called a "swinger". I, er, paid for it by prostitution. Until, well until I became such a vegetable, nobody wanted me. And I didn't want myself. And there was nothing. The day I walked into Synanon, I wasn't even alive except for my hate. I guess it was my hate that made me want to go on. I wanted to be alive so I could hate some more. I didn't expect this. Or that I would be standing in front of strangers telling them I didn't hate anymore. I am now Betty Coleman. I'm not afraid anymore. I have been clean for three years. And I intend to stay clean for three hundred. I'm not just some little, lost soul blaming everybody else for her own inadequacies. Synanon has given me a reason to live. When I was a dope fiend, none of this was possible. Now, because of Synanon, everything is possible.