Eartha Kitt Quotes

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

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. I have a baby and then you send him off to war. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

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

I used to teach dance lessons.

I'm very happy with what the gods have given me. I take life as she presents herself to me, and whatever you see in my face is what I have earned.

I thought Britney Spears was absolutely marvelous in the beginning. But now I think she's gone off the deep end.

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

This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

I am the original Material Girl.

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

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.

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.

As the 'Batman' TV series was returning to ABC for its second season in 1967, the TV bosses decided to take Catwoman into another direction... lucky for me.

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

I have to keep testing myself.

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

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

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.

I love men and I like to get their attention.

Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

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

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.

I don't go for very handsome men. Like they say in England, toy boys break too easily.

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.

We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

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.

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

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

When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I was called a naughty girl only because I was singing naughty songs.

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

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

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.

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

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

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

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.

The biggest family in the world is my fans.

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.

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