Kitty Carlisle Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn`t allowed to go to the movies.

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

There were a lot of movies about the war.

And I didn`t, that`s why my career was very short lived.

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.

And I wasn`t crazy about Hollywood in those days.

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

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

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

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

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can`t do.