Eartha Kitt Quotes:- Eartha Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer, actress, dancer, comedian, activist, author, and songwriter 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. Orson Welles once called her the “most exciting woman in the world”.
Inspirational Eartha Kitt Quotes
“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
“People, in general, are used to seeing me like the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.”-Eartha Kitt
“Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.”-Eartha Kitt
“Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.”-Eartha Kitt
“Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.”-Eartha Kitt
“I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.”-Eartha Kitt
“My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.”-Eartha Kitt
“I am the original ‘Material Girl.'”-Eartha Kitt
“I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.”-Eartha Kitt
“You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.”-Eartha Kitt
“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”-Eartha Kitt
“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
Best Eartha Kitt Quotes And Sayings
“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
“Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.”-Eartha Kitt
“I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.”-Eartha Kitt
“I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.”-Eartha Kitt
“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.”-Eartha Kitt
“In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.”-Eartha Kitt
“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
“I was considered an ugly duckling.”-Eartha Kitt
“Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.”-Eartha Kitt
“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
“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
Eartha Kitt Quotes on Love and Compromise
“I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.”-Eartha Kitt
“I love to tease men with my legs.”-Eartha Kitt
“Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brainpower, and look at what he did.”-Eartha Kitt
“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
“Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.”-Eartha Kitt
“I don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.”-Eartha Kitt
“I have to keep testing myself.”-Eartha Kitt
“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
“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
“I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.”-Eartha Kitt
“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
Eartha Kitt Quotes About Movies
“The public has become my fairy godmother.”-Eartha Kitt
“I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.”-Eartha Kitt
“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
“Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.”-Eartha Kitt
“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
“I used to teach dance lessons.”-Eartha Kitt
“Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.”-Eartha Kitt
“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
“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
“I was a street dancer.”-Eartha Kitt
Top 6 Eartha Kitt Quotes
“Even as a child, I found a way to survive.”-Eartha Kitt
“Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.”-Eartha Kitt
“I love men and I like to get their attention.”-Eartha Kitt
“The audience has always been my best director.”-Eartha Kitt
“Generally, the whole entertainment business now is bland.”-Eartha Kitt
“I was illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.”-Eartha Kitt
