Kitty Carlisle Quotations

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

Some of the items were still in dry cleaning bags. The AJ community was especially generous. I could not have asked for a better response.

It was the world of make believe that people really weren't living in, and they were living in terrible, terrible circumstances.

They were make believe, and they were the world that people didn't have, but that they wanted, and that's why they were so popular.

But I think television had more of a, of a, of an influence on my life, than the movies, because with television you came into somebody's home.

TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.