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
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.
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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.
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.
Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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.
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
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.
I love to tease men with my legs.
