Top 100 Kitt Quotes
#1. I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.
Eartha Kitt
#2. Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
Eartha Kitt
#3. Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
Selena Kitt
#4. I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.
Eartha Kitt
#5. 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
#6. His hips back down to the bed. Reaching upwards as I spread my knees even wider, I slid the blindfold
Selena Kitt
#7. You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.
Eartha Kitt
#8. 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
#9. His father had taught him never to split wood with an ax. A maul did the job best,
Selena Kitt
#10. I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock.
Eartha Kitt
#11. 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.
Eartha Kitt
#12. 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?
Eartha Kitt
#13. Sometimes it's good to fall down to see who will pick you up.
Eartha Kitt
#14. But sometimes you just can't tell people things. Sometimes they just have to happen. Life will happen to you. Trust me, it will. No need to hurry it along.
Selena Kitt
#15. I am too small to contain what I feel.
Selena Kitt
#16. 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
#17. Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
Eartha Kitt
#18. I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
Eartha Kitt
#19. In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
Eartha Kitt
#20. Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
Eartha Kitt
#21. The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.
Eartha Kitt
#22. A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.
Eartha Kitt
#23. I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.
Eartha Kitt
#24. Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.
Eartha Kitt
#25. 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
#26. If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
Eartha Kitt
#28. What are these things that this houses, Eva?" Rovender picked up a crumbling tome. He handed it to her.
"These are books," Eva said as the yellowed bits of paper flaked away in her hands to rest on the floor. "It's what humans used to put all of their writing in long ago.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#29. I have so much more t'teach ye." He chuckled, kissing her fully on the mouth, holding her little body in his arms.
"More?" Her eyes lit up.
"Aye, much, much more," he agreed, eyes alight. "Come wit' me, lass. Let's get cleaned up so we can get dirty again.
Selena Kitt
#31. 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.
Eartha Kitt
#32. Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.
Eartha Kitt
#33. Hard. I gasped, clinging to him as he entered me, feeling my body opening to him in a bright red burst.
Selena Kitt
#34. I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
Eartha Kitt
#35. 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.
Eartha Kitt
#36. 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
#37. 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.
Eartha Kitt
#39. I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me.
Eartha Kitt
#40. Nah." His arms tightened around her. "I think the Bible got it backwards. I think God made women first. Then he made man, because he thought, 'Someone's gotta see this!
Selena Kitt
#41. In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with specific, local characteristics.
Sally A. Kitt Chappell
#42. Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
Eartha Kitt
#43. Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
Eartha Kitt
#44. Desire doesn't want exposure, the light or the sun. Lust seeks darkness, a deep, secret heat, something buried, a treasure to find.
Selena Kitt
#45. People these days are thinking less and drinking more.
Eartha Kitt
#46. I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
Eartha Kitt
#47. We must take responsibility for ourselves, for who we become, for how we live each day.
Kitt Weagant
#48. I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
Eartha Kitt
#49. I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.
Eartha Kitt
#50. 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
#51. I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
Eartha Kitt
#52. 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
#53. My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt
#54. 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.
Eartha Kitt
#55. Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.
Eartha Kitt
#56. I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.
Eartha Kitt
#57. I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't trout.
Jujubee
#58. He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.
William Daniels
#59. 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.
Eartha Kitt
#60. 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.
Eartha Kitt
#61. Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
Eartha Kitt
#62. I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.
Eartha Kitt
#63. I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy.
Eartha Kitt
#64. It's best if you can do things with a sense of humor and finesse.
Eartha Kitt
#65. 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
#66. 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.
Eartha Kitt
#67. She expected people to accept her for who she was. But she never really accepted herself.
Sandra Kitt
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
Eartha Kitt
#71. Where are you going?" she called after him.
"Dinner!" he yelled back, not turning. "I best eat somethin' afore I decide t'devour ye instead!
Selena Kitt
#72. Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
Eartha Kitt
#73. A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.
Eartha Kitt
#75. The audience has always been my best director.
Eartha Kitt
#76. 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.
Eartha Kitt
#77. I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
Eartha Kitt
#78. Thank God I got the rejects. These animals are very, very affectionate.
Eartha Kitt
#79. Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.
Eartha Kitt
#80. 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
#81. You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
A. J. Kitt
#82. 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
#83. 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!
Eartha Kitt
#85. I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
Eartha Kitt
#86. 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
#87. I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.
Eartha Kitt
#88. 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.
Eartha Kitt
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. Innocence could be lost more than once after all.
Selena Kitt
#92. 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, when asked what tricks her poodle did.
Eartha Kitt
#93. Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
Eartha Kitt
#94. So? Maybe he's got a talent for it. Have you seen the pictures yet?" I shook my head. "Nope. He said
Selena Kitt
#95. I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
Eartha Kitt
#96. I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.
Eartha Kitt
#97. 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.
Eartha Kitt
#98. I think everybody who was in it thought they were all going to be Eartha Kitt or be big stars. That didn't happen, but it was a wake-up call to have one's first professional job on Broadway, I must say.
Maggie Smith
#99. 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.
Eartha Kitt
#100. Some acts are tricky. Eartha Kitt was tricky in a wonderful, old-style way. She did yoga on the piano and put her hands over her ears when the other acts were on.
Jools Holland
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