Quotes from 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.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

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

I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.

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.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

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

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.

Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

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.

Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.

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.

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

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

You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.

I love to tease men with my legs.

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

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.

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.

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

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

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.