Wasn Allowed Quotes by Kitty Carlisle

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

— Kitty Carlisle

It was considered oh, not proper for children 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 get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

— Kitty Carlisle

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

— Kitty Carlisle

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— Kitty Carlisle