Quotes from Eartha Kitt

The audience has always been my best director.

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 don't have to have the biggest house or the biggest car or the longest mink, but quality of life is really glamorous.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.

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?

I have to keep testing myself.

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

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.

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.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.

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

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

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

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

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.

We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppressed person, and so I understand them, as best as I can, even though I am a ??

We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppressed person, and so I understand them, as best as I can, even though I am a heterosexual.

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

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.

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.

still remembering all the things Jamie Dean had told me on the phone. "I don't know what the feeling of love is really like. I don't know if I have ever been in love, but if I have, it must have been with you because I never felt that feeling before you and I have never felt that feeling after you.