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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 love men and I like to get their attention.

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

I am the original Material Girl.

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

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

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.

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.

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