Eartha Kitt > Quotes

“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.”
― Eartha Kitt

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

“I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.”
― Eartha Kitt

“A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.”
― Eartha Kitt

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

“I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.”
― Eartha Kitt

“I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.”
― Eartha Kitt

“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 more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppressed person, and so I understand them, as best as I can, even though I am a ❗☒”
― Eartha Kitt

“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 more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppressed person, and so I understand them, as best as I can, even though I am a heterosexual.”
― Eartha Kitt

“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.”
― Eartha Kitt, Thursday's Child

“When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing—in tune!—and the audience loved it.

Eartha Kitt, when asked what tricks her poodle did.”
― Eartha Kitt

“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.”
― Eartha Kitt

“The thunder would shake me inside. I would quiver to its rhythm. The lightning would light up my heart and I would want, with it, to lift something and be destructive.”
― Eartha Kitt, Thursday's Child

“I hated the idea of going back to that factory. I hated the idea of having a routine life, of having to get up at seven Α.Μ. to get to school, of having knowledge from books crowded into my head. I wanted to rebel. I wanted to change the world to be the way I wanted it. I wanted a law forbidding people to work longer than four hours a day at the most. People should be independent of restrictions. Restrictions of society, of laws. People should not be made to do things they did not like. I began to rebel.

I felt the important thing for people was to eat when they were hungry, not because it was breakfast time, lunchtime, dinnertime or suppertime. One should work when he needed to work to earn enough to feed and clothe a family properly, to have a home when he wanted to have it. To love because he loved, to hate because he hated, not because someone told him to, when, where, and how.

I hated the idea of having to be in a certain place at a certain time. I should go when I wanted. No one should be obligated to anyone.”
― Eartha Kitt, Thursday's Child

“…still remembering all the things Jamie Dean had told me on the phone. "I don't know what the feeling of love is really like. I don't know if I have ever been in love, but if I have, it must have been with you because I never felt that feeling before you and I have never felt that feeling after you.”
― Eartha Kitt, I'm Still Here: Confessions of a Sex Kitten