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

- Kitty Carlisle

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

- Kitty Carlisle

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

- Kitty Carlisle

And I didn't. That's why my career was very short-lived.

- Kitty Carlisle

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

- Kitty Carlisle

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

- Kitty Carlisle

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

- Kitty Carlisle

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

- Kitty Carlisle

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

- Kitty Carlisle