Quotes by Eartha Kitt

About Eartha Kitt:

Eartha Mae Kitt was an American actress, singer, cabaret star, dancer, stand-up comedian, activist and voice artist, known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby", which were both US Top 10 hits. She starred in 1967 as Catwoman, in the third and final season of the television series Batman. Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world".
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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.

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The audience has always been my best director.

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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.

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

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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.

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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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?

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

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I love to tease men with my legs.

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

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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 t...

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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.

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I love men and I like to get their attention.

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The public has become my fairy godmother.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameEartha Kitt
  • DescriptionAmerican actress
  • BornJanuary 17, 1927
  • DiedDecember 25, 2008
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Singer; Jazz Musician
  • AwardsAnnie Award