Top 80 Eartha Kitt Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Eartha Kitt

2. “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

3. “I love men and I like to get their attention.”

— Eartha Kitt

4. “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

5. “Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.”

— Eartha Kitt

6. “I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.”

— Eartha Kitt

7. “The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.”

— Eartha Kitt

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

— Eartha Kitt

9. “I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.”

— Eartha Kitt

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

— Eartha Kitt

11. “Sometimes it’s good to fall down to see who will pick you up.”

— Eartha Kitt

12. “I’ve never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don’t take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.”

— Eartha Kitt

13. “I love to tease men with my legs.”

— Eartha Kitt

14. “I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.”

— Eartha Kitt

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

— Eartha Kitt

16. “Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.”

— Eartha Kitt

17. “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

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

— Eartha Kitt

19. “I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.”

— Eartha Kitt

20. “I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.”

— Eartha Kitt

21. “I have to keep testing myself.”

— Eartha Kitt

22. “If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.”

— Eartha Kitt

23. “People these days are thinking less and drinking more.”

— Eartha Kitt

24. “The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.”

— Eartha Kitt

25. “I am the original Material Girl.”

— Eartha Kitt

26. “This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it’s a part of live entertainment.”

— Eartha Kitt

27. “Greed can be very dangerous because you sacrifice your soul for the sake of something material, and then you start sacrificing people in order to keep that which is material.”

— Eartha Kitt

28. “Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.”

— Eartha Kitt

29. “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

30. “It’s best if you can do things with a sense of humor and finesse.”

— Eartha Kitt

31. “People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.”

— Eartha Kitt

32. “I’m still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.”

— Eartha Kitt

33. “Thank God I got the rejects. These animals are very, very affectionate.”

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34. “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

35. “The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says you’re entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.”

— Eartha Kitt

36. “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

37. “Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.”

— Eartha Kitt

38. “I said to the president’s wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.”

— Eartha Kitt

39. “I love being in America. I used to love traveling and I am glad that I was able to go around the world. I still love to go to Europe, but I always want to come home.”

— Eartha Kitt

40. “Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense.”

— Eartha Kitt

41. “Thank God you’ve got a sense of humor, or you’d be in trouble.”

— Eartha Kitt

42. “I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.”

— Eartha Kitt

43. “I’ve always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.”

— Eartha Kitt

44. “I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.”

— Eartha Kitt

45. “In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.”

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46. “Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.”

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47. “I am still confused because I still don’t know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.”

— Eartha Kitt

48. “Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn’t supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.”

— Eartha Kitt

49. “I was invited to a luncheon with 49 other women to give my opinions about the problematic situation among young people. They wanted me to talk about why is there so much juvenile delinquency in the streets of America.”

— Eartha Kitt

50. “Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.”

— Eartha Kitt