Eartha Kitt Quotes

People these days are thinking less and drinking more.

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

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

When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing - in tune! - and the audience loved it.
Eartha Kitt, when asked what tricks her poodle did.

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

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

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

The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don't have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sons - and I know what it's like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnson - we raise children and send them to war.

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

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

The audience has always been my best director.

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

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

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.

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

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

I was invited to a luncheon with 49 other women to give my opinions about the problematic situation among young people. They wanted me to talk about why is there so much juvenile delinquency in the streets of America.

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 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!

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

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

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

In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman in Batman: The Animated Series.

I was a street dancer.

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

I have to keep testing myself.

I love men and I like to get their attention.

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

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

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

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

When my baby was born I had to know how to save her in case she fell in the pool or something like that. I went to one of these nursing places to learn how to take care of the child.

As you've witnessed, Catwoman is the ultimate diva. From the pages of comic books to both small and big screens, Catwoman continues to evolve and mature like a true cat. Catwoman, is a unique breed, never taking the same form twice. But whatever form she takes, she'll always reign supreme. A dog maybe man's best friend, but a cat is everyone's favourite feline fatale.

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

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

Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!

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

I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.

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

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

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

It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

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

I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

I love to tease men with my legs.

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

I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

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

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.

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.

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

I love being in America. I used to love traveling and I am glad that I was able to go around the world. I still love to go to Europe, but I always want to come home.

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

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.

I am the original 'Material Girl.'

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

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

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

I was considered an ugly duckling.

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

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.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

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

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

I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.

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

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.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

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

The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says you're entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.

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

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

The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.

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