Quotes by Eartha Kitt

“Its all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”

“When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singingin tune!and the audience loved it.Eartha Kitt, when asked what tricks her poodle did.”

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

“We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is ...”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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 love to tease men with my legs.”

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

“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.”

“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 an...”

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

“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”

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

“It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”

“I fall in love myself, and I want someone to share it with me. I want someone to share me, with me.”

“You should go to America. That's where my son is. That's where your future is, not Myra Menke. Her head's as empty as a flowerpot.”

“If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs, / The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies. / The wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, / And cries to the moon, / If only if only.”