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

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

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

Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.

Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn’t supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

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.

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.

I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.

Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.

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

The public has become my fairy godmother.

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.

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.

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.

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.

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.

My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.

An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.

I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.

I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.