Kitt Quotes & Sayings

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car. — William Daniels

'Boomerang!' I love that movie just because of Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy, Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt. There were so many characters. As an actress, to see African-American actors be so diverse was different from what I was used to seeing. — Drew Sidora

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as. — Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons. — Eartha Kitt

In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act. — Eartha Kitt

Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time. — Eartha Kitt

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

Nah." His arms tightened around her. "I think the Bible got it backwards. I think God made women first. Then he made man, because he thought, 'Someone's gotta see this! — Selena Kitt

As the Batman TV series was returning to ABC for its second season in 1967, the TV bosses decided to take Catwoman into another direction ... lucky for me. — Eartha Kitt

Sometimes it's good to fall down to see who will pick you up. — Eartha Kitt

Let's see... "Advanced Flanking Theory", by U.R. Skrood. "Fighting on the Grid", by Minnie Churse. "Moving on Diagonals", by Wun and Ahaff. Ah ha! Here it is: "Attacks of Opportunity Explained", by Ben Dover and Taye Kitt. — Rich Burlew

We lay that way for a while, breathing together, watching the shadows flicker over the walls and each other's faces. She played with a wet strand of my hair, wrapping it around her finger. It should have been awkward, but somehow it wasn't. I felt something moving between us, like light or heat, growing with every breath. — Selena Kitt

Even as a child, I found a way to survive. — Eartha Kitt

I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself. — Eartha Kitt

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything. — Eartha Kitt

Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden. — Selena Kitt

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there. — Eartha Kitt

The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don't have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sons - and I know what it's like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnson - we raise children and send them to war. — 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

gone and couldn't protect her, — Selena Kitt

I have so much more t'teach ye." He chuckled, kissing her fully on the mouth, holding her little body in his arms.
"More?" Her eyes lit up.
"Aye, much, much more," he agreed, eyes alight. "Come wit' me, lass. Let's get cleaned up so we can get dirty again. — Selena Kitt

Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble. — Eartha Kitt

Everything should be done with moderation and using common sense. — Eartha Kitt

But sometimes you just can't tell people things. Sometimes they just have to happen. Life will happen to you. Trust me, it will. No need to hurry it along. — Selena Kitt

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

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

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

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

When the Batman TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman. — Eartha Kitt

So? Maybe he's got a talent for it. Have you seen the pictures yet?" I shook my head. "Nope. He said — Selena Kitt

I think everybody who was in it thought they were all going to be Eartha Kitt or be big stars. That didn't happen, but it was a wake-up call to have one's first professional job on Broadway, I must say. — Maggie Smith

I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy. — Eartha Kitt

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

In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman in Batman: The Animated Series. — Eartha Kitt

His father had taught him never to split wood with an ax. A maul did the job best, — Selena Kitt

Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you. — A. J. 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

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that. — Eartha Kitt

I had 'em set a table for ye in 'ere," he explained, nodding at the dishes. "Thought ye might like some stew."
"No, thank you." Her stomach growled audibly and he arched his eyebrows again, a gesture that Sibyl found infuriating. Almost as infuriating as being called "skinny." And "lass."
"This jus' rabbit." He smiled like he could read her mind, going over to the fire and using a long, thick pole with hooked end to lift a black iron pot. "We don't eat humans, Sibyl. — Selena Kitt

And ye were promised t'Alistair?" The man took his seat again, leaning back and crossing his arms as he studied her, "Laird of clan MacFalon?"
"Yes, but ... " She swallowed a bite of stew, meeting those blue eyes across the table. He missed nothing, this man. "I didn't want to marry him."
"That explains why ye put an arrow in 'im? — Selena Kitt

A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar. — 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. The tombstone will be my diploma. — 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 was a street dancer. — Eartha Kitt

Is it warm in here?" Jules fanned her flushed cheeks with one hand. "I apologize," Kai said. "I do like it warm - mostly so I can walk around the house naked." He couldn't help smiling when she looked over at him, aghast, until she realized he was joking and then burst into a bright, lovely laugh. "You're — Selena Kitt

Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn't there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google....Sure, there's a certain charm to being able to look up and watch Eartha Kitt singing Old Fashioned Millionaire in 1957 at three in the morning or Hayley Mills singing a song about femininity from an old Disney film. But the charm is a kind of deception about a whole new way of feeling lonely, a semblance of plenitude but really a new level of Dante's inferno, a zombie-filled cemetery of spurious clues, beauty, pathos, pain, the faces of puppies, women and men from all over the world tied up and wanked over in site after site, a great sea of hidden shallows. More and more, the pressing human dilemma: how to walk a clean path between obscenities. — Ali Smith

I was considered an ugly duckling. — Eartha Kitt

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

I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking me. — Eartha Kitt

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer. — Eartha Kitt

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty. — Eartha Kitt

What are these things that this houses, Eva?" Rovender picked up a crumbling tome. He handed it to her.
"These are books," Eva said as the yellowed bits of paper flaked away in her hands to rest on the floor. "It's what humans used to put all of their writing in long ago. — Tony DiTerlizzi

Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected. — Eartha Kitt

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won. — Eartha Kitt

I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me. — Eartha Kitt

People these days are thinking less and drinking more. — Eartha Kitt

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever. — Eartha Kitt

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

I don't think I ever really got interested in theater. — 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

Some acts are tricky. Eartha Kitt was tricky in a wonderful, old-style way. She did yoga on the piano and put her hands over her ears when the other acts were on. — Jools Holland

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle. — Eartha Kitt

Where are you going?" she called after him.
"Dinner!" he yelled back, not turning. "I best eat somethin' afore I decide t'devour ye instead! — Selena Kitt

Your answers lie here, Rovender said, gesturing around the library. — Tony DiTerlizzi

She tasted sweet, like oranges, liquid sunshine in my mouth as we kissed, our tongues playing together. — Selena Kitt

You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy. — Eartha Kitt

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

I am the original 'Material Girl.' — Eartha Kitt

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do. — A. J. Kitt

I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate. — Eartha Kitt

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger. — Eartha Kitt

She expected people to accept her for who she was. But she never really accepted herself. — Sandra Kitt

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

Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end. — Selena Kitt

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have. — Eartha Kitt

We must take responsibility for ourselves, for who we become, for how we live each day. — Kitt Weagant

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 don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock. — Eartha Kitt

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child. — Eartha Kitt

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly. — Eartha Kitt

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

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted. — Eartha Kitt

Most people who think they're happy are really just stupid. — Tom 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

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker. — Eartha Kitt

I made a deal with the devil.
I sold my soul for vengeance. — Selena Kitt

Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living. — Eartha Kitt

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection. — Eartha Kitt

True, it has given its life," Rovender said. "But its energy, its spirit, will replenish yours. Respect that and enjoy the meal. — Tony DiTerlizzi

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

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

Today I will do one small task that will contribute toward the achievement of a life goal. — Kitt Weagant

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

Hard. I gasped, clinging to him as he entered me, feeling my body opening to him in a bright red burst. — Selena Kitt

I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret. — Eartha Kitt

Man was not designed to eat pills and powders and all the other chemicals they pump you full of. We were meant to live off the land in harmony with it. Not in some safety bubble. — Tony DiTerlizzi

I love to tease men with my legs. — 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

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. — Eartha Kitt