Eartha Kitt Quotes

I've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.

I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

I love being in America. I used to love traveling and I am glad that I was able to go around the world. I still love to go to Europe, but I always want to come home.

I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

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 would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman in 'Batman: The Animated Series.'

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.

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 am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

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

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.

When the 'Batman' TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

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

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

A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.

I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

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.

As you've witnessed, Catwoman is the ultimate diva. From the pages of comic books to both small and big screens, Catwoman continues to evolve and mature like a true cat. Catwoman, is a unique breed, never taking the same form twice. But whatever form she takes, she'll always reign supreme. A dog maybe man's best friend, but a cat is everyone's favourite feline fatale.

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

I don't have to have the biggest house or the biggest car or the longest mink, but quality of life is really glamorous.

I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

People these days are thinking less and drinking more.

I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.

I was invited to a luncheon with 49 other women to give my opinions about the problematic situation among young people. They wanted me to talk about why is there so much juvenile delinquency in the streets of America.

The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

Greed can be very dangerous because you sacrifice your soul for the sake of something material, and then you start sacrificing people in order to keep that which is material.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

I love to tease men with my legs.

It's best if you can do things with a sense of humor and finesse.