Julie Newmar Quotes

I`m magnificent! I`m 5`11" and I weigh 135 pounds, and I look like a racehorse.

Tell me I`m beautiful, it`s nothing. Tell me I`m intellectual - I know it. Tell me I`m funny and it`s the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.

(on how she got her most famous role, Catwoman on "Batman" (1966)) I had lived in New York at the time on Beekman Place. I remember it was a weekend, Friday or Saturday, and my brother had come down from Harvard with five or six of his friends, and we were all sitting around the sofa, just chatting away, when the phone rang. I got up and answered it, and it was this agent or someone in Hollywood, who said, "Miss Newmar, would you like to play Catwoman on the `Batman` series? They are casting it out here." I was insulted because he said, "It starts Monday." I said, "What is this?" That`s how television is done: they never know what they are doing until yesterday. Well, my brother leaped off the sofa. I mean he physically levitated and said, " `Batman`! That`s the favorite show at Harvard. We all quit our classes and quit our studies and run into the TV room and watch this show." I said, "They want me to play Catwoman." He said, "Do it!" So, I said, "OK, I`ll do it."

It was so wonderful being on "Batman" (1966) because you could be nasty and mean, and in the `50S women could never--unless you were some `B` picture actress--be mean, bad, and nasty. It was so satisfying; I can`t tell you how satisfying it was.

(interview in Star Trek Magaazine, #1, Sept./Oct. 2006) "Star Trek" (1966)--oh my goodness, what a following that show has! I get asked about it all the time, and I receive lots of fan mail from it, even though I only did one episode.

(July 2008) Today, I walk - but very slowly. My balance is also affected. People might think I`ve had too much to drink, but I never drank, smoked or took drugs my entire life. If I`m out in public, I grab on to some charming, darling fellow who can steady me. I`ve been encouraged by the many men who have offered me their shoulders.

I`m magnificent! I`m five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.