My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
EARTHA KITTMy recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
EARTHA KITTLive theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
EARTHA KITTI’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 KITTGreed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
EARTHA KITTDr. 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 KITTA 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 KITTI fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
EARTHA KITTI used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
EARTHA KITTI 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 KITTI am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
EARTHA KITTI punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
EARTHA KITTLet’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
EARTHA KITTI stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
EARTHA KITTAging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
EARTHA KITTRelationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it’s fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
EARTHA KITTThe public has become my fairy godmother.
EARTHA KITT