Eartha Kitt Quotes

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.

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

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

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

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

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'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.

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.

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

The public has become my fairy godmother.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

People these days are thinking less and drinking more.

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

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

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

I love men and I like to get their attention.

I am the original Material Girl.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

I love to tease men with my legs.

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.

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

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.