Eartha Kitt Quotes

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

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 ❗☒

"…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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you.

If you forget to come back for Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.

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.

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.

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.