I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
— Eartha Kitt
I have to keep testing myself.
— Eartha Kitt
The audience has always been my best director.
— Eartha Kitt
I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.
— Eartha Kitt
I am the original 'Material Girl.'
— Eartha Kitt
A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.
— Eartha Kitt
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.
— Eartha Kitt
I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.
— Eartha Kitt
People these days are thinking less and drinking more.
— Eartha Kitt
I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.
— Eartha Kitt
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.
— Eartha Kitt
You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
— Eartha Kitt
I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
— Eartha Kitt
I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me.
— Eartha Kitt
I love men and I like to get their attention.
— Eartha Kitt
Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
— Eartha Kitt
Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
— Eartha Kitt
I was a street dancer.
— Eartha Kitt
I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.
— Eartha Kitt
Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
— Eartha Kitt
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. — Eartha Kitt
Even as a child, I found a way to survive. — Eartha Kitt
I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away. — Eartha Kitt
Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever. — Eartha Kitt
In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act. — Eartha Kitt
If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money. — Eartha Kitt
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! — Eartha Kitt
In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker. — Eartha Kitt
The public has become my fairy godmother. — Eartha Kitt
Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected. — Eartha Kitt
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions. — Eartha Kitt
I was considered an ugly duckling. — Eartha Kitt
The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it. — Eartha Kitt
I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock. — Eartha Kitt
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time. — Eartha Kitt
I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold. — Eartha Kitt
I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy. — Eartha Kitt
I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me. — Eartha Kitt
I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me. — Eartha Kitt
Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection. — Eartha Kitt
I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer. — Eartha Kitt
You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot. — Eartha Kitt
Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that. — Eartha Kitt
Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won. — Eartha Kitt
I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it. — Eartha Kitt
I don't think I ever really got interested in theater. — Eartha Kitt
I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt. — Eartha Kitt
Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble. — Eartha Kitt
I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child. — Eartha Kitt
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. — Eartha Kitt
I love to tease men with my legs. — Eartha Kitt
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. — Eartha Kitt
Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail. — Eartha Kitt
I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma. — Eartha Kitt
People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as. — Eartha Kitt
I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. — Eartha Kitt
I used to teach dance lessons. — Eartha Kitt
I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself. — Eartha Kitt
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. — Eartha Kitt
