Best 56 quotes of Eartha Kitt on MyQuotes

A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.

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

As the 'Batman' TV series was returning to ABC for its second season in 1967, the TV bosses decided to take Catwoman into another direction... lucky for me.

Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.

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.

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.

I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy.

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. I have a baby and then you send him off to war. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

I am the original Material Girl.

I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.

I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock.

I don't go for very handsome men. Like they say in England, toy boys break too easily.

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 don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

I love being in America. I used to love traveling and I am glad that I was able to go around the world. I still love to go to Europe, but I always want to come home.

I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.

In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman in 'Batman: The Animated Series.'

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

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

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

I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.

I sent my daughter 40 roses last November because I thought she was 40. And she laughed her head off. She is not going to be 40 until this year!

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

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 thought Britney Spears was absolutely marvelous in the beginning. But now I think she's gone off the deep end.

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

I used to teach dance lessons.

I've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.

I was called a naughty girl only because I was singing naughty songs.

I was invited to a luncheon with 49 other women to give my opinions about the problematic situation among young people. They wanted me to talk about why is there so much juvenile delinquency in the streets of America.

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

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

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

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.

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

People these days are thinking less and drinking more.

Thank God I got the rejects. These animals are very, very affectionate.

Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.

The biggest family in the world is my fans.

The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.

The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sons—and I know what it's like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnson—we raise children and send them to war.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

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.

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.

We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.