Words matter. These are the best Eartha Kitt Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was considered an ugly duckling.
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.
Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
I don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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’m an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
I love men and I like to get their attention.
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.
Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it’s fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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 don’t carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it’s the general public that made me – not any one particular group. So I don’t think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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’ve always been multi-cultural myself. I’m not black and I’m not white and I’m not pink and I’m not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
