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 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.

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

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

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.

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.