Eartha Quotes

I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't trout. — Jujubee

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

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. — Eartha Kitt

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. — Eartha Kitt

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. — 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

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense. — Eartha Kitt

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. — Eartha Kitt

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world. — Eartha Kitt

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

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

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. — Eartha Kitt

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

People these days are thinking less and drinking more. — Eartha Kitt

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

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

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

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. — 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

I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute. — Eartha Kitt

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland. — Eartha Kitt

I was a street dancer. — Eartha Kitt

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

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

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

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

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

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything. — Eartha Kitt

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child. — Eartha Kitt

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love to tease men with my legs. — Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons. — Eartha Kitt

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. — 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 don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock. — 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 think I ever really got interested in theater. — 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