Eartha kitt quotes

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

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

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

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

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

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

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.

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

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

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

People these days are thinking less and drinking more.

I love to tease men with my legs.

The biggest family in the world is my fans.

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

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.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

I have to keep testing myself.

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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

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 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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 am the original Material Girl.

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

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

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 love men and I like to get their attention.

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

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

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

The public has become my fairy godmother.

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.

I used to teach dance lessons.

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

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.