Eartha Kitt

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

I used to teach dance lessons.

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

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.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.