Top 15 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.

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

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

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

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

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

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.

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.

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 ❗☒

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.

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.

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.

"…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.

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.