Kitty Carlisle quotes:

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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