Eartha Kitt Quotes

"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."

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

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

"Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things."

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

"Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything."

"I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself."

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

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

"I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute."

"I love to tease men with my legs."

"I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer."

"I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt."

"I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret."

"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."

"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."

"In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker."

"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."

"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."

"In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act."

"I was considered an ugly duckling."

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

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

"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 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."

"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."