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.

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

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!

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.

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

I have to keep testing myself.