You don’t move just because you want to go from this point to that point – the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words. – Eartha Kitt
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. – Eartha Kitt
I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it? – Eartha Kitt
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. – Eartha Kitt
I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer. – Eartha Kitt
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. – Eartha Kitt
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. – Eartha Kitt
I don’t wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly. – Eartha Kitt
I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle. – Eartha Kitt
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. – 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 an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans. – Eartha Kitt
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time. – Eartha Kitt
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. – Eartha Kitt
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. – Eartha Kitt
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. – Eartha Kitt
Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it’s fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do! – Eartha Kitt
I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don’t know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child. – Eartha Kitt
