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

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

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.

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.

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

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.