Eartha Kitt famous quotes

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Inspirational #Graduation #Education

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

#Men #Pick Me Up #Pick 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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Love #Motivational #Fall

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Sacrifice #Order #People

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

#Falling In Love #Want #Share

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Men #Land #Giving

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

#Television #Theater

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

#Aging #Wonderful #Should

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Greed

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

#Gold #Dirt #Diamond

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

#Pain #Jewelry

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

#Acceptance #Thinking #Recipes

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

#Political #Feelings #Answers

I am the original Material Girl.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Girl #Materials

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Mother #Baby #Feelings

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

#Children #Animal #Feelings

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Entertainment #Bland #Entertainment Business

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Mean #Wind #Rivers

I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
-- Eartha Kitt

#May #Never Take Anything For Granted #Granted

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

#Mother #Thinking #Giving

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#School #Successful #Air

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Moving #Use #Body

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Children #Way #Found

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Government #America #House

I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Lasts #Cabaret

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Country #People #Answers

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

#Thinking #Theater

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Pay #Worth It

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Taken #America #Tvs

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Boss #Lucky #Tvs

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Temptress #Fans #Another Chance

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Dog #Book #Cat

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

#Jobs #People #Giving

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

#Mean #Doe #Different

I used to teach dance lessons.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Lessons #Used #Teach

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

#Dog #Training #Singing

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

#Poverty #Subway #Stills

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

#Cat #Race #Creeds

People these days are thinking less and drinking more.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Drinking #Thinking #People

I love to tease men with my legs.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Men #Legs #Tease

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Fall #Our Words #Entertainment

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

#Fall #Sometimes #Falling Down

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Fear #Creating #Risk

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Ice #Stage #Remembered

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

#Stronger #Used #Thrown

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Gay #Color #White

The biggest family in the world is my fans.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Fans #World

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

#Stupid #Suffering #Doe

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Country #Hurt #Faces

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Style #Want

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Mother #Country #Children

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

#Country #Kids #Rebel

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

#Construction #Used #Workers

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

#People #Stressed #Nonsensical

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

#Truth #Lying #Forever

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Fighting #People

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

#Way #Path #Herds

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.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Want

The public has become my fairy godmother.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Godmother #Fairy #Fairy Godmother

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Essence #Cotton #Sophisticated

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

#Girl #Naughty #People

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

#Dog #Animal #Thank God

I have to keep testing myself.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Testing

I love men and I like to get their attention.
-- Eartha Kitt

#Men #Attention

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
-- Eartha Kitt

#World #Innocence #Exciting