Eartha Kitt Quotes

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

I have to keep testing myself.

The audience has always been my best director.

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

I am the original 'Material Girl.'

I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt ... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.

I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.

When the Batman TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman.

I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

People these days are thinking less and drinking more.

Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

It's best if you can do things with a sense of humor and finesse.

I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me.

I love men and I like to get their attention.

I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

I was a street dancer.

Sometimes it's good to fall down to see who will pick you up.

Thank God I got the rejects. These animals are very, very affectionate.

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

I sent my daughter 40 roses last November because I thought she was 40. And she laughed her head off. She is not going to be 40 until this year!

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

I was considered an ugly duckling.

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock.

Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy.

I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.

I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.

I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.

Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

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.

I love to tease men with my legs.

I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.

I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.

I used to teach dance lessons.

I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.