Top 117 Quotes & Sayings by Eartha Kitt - Page 2

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

I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

People these days are thinking less and drinking more.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.'

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.

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

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The biggest family in the world is my fans.

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

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

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.

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.

I am the original Material Girl.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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