Kitty Carlisle Quotes

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.