Julie Newmar

I'll only work if something delicious comes along or if a darling friend asks me to flutter my wings.

People tell me I'm intimidating and I've got to come to terms with it.

Silly' is probably the word that best describes me.

You know, in real life, I'm just a pussycat.

I had three miscarriages, then, at forty-eight, a child with serious developmental difficulties. He is a blessing and a jewel. He is my teacher. From him I get and give unconditional love.

I started dancing when I was 5 years old. Ballet. Flamenco.

My mother took me to every kind of dance instructor.

I can't see myself as others see me.

Like nearly every female, I thought I'd get married and that would be it for life.

Ecstasy and beauty are eternal.

I did a dance with Fred Astaire in the movie 'Bandwagon.' I got to waltz just from left of camera to right of camera, and I'm taller than Fred Astaire. Fortunately, I was wearing a long skirt, so I waltzed with bended knees.

When you're performing pain never matters.

It's always the gay people, the outliers, who are the cutting edge, and god bless these people! And to everyone else, wake up. See what's new!

Catwoman is Batman's one true love. She's tremendously popular with women because she's both a heroine and a villainess.

My advice to people with any disease is to live above it.

Laugh, and you'll live without Medicaid until you're 100.

Flirtation is something that should be practiced very regularly. Flirtation is like taking a nice walk. You do it as a form of exercise, but it also contributes most highly to your well-being.

I wrote an essay about leaf blowers and the evil they do.

Who am I, really? I prefer to leave that up to the observer, because I will never finish answering that.

I've never let anyone measure me in my entire life, but I think I'm 5-11.

Over the years, the kind of fan mail I've gotten from men has always been different from what I get from women.

I think most people, almost 96 percent, remember me as Catwoman on the 'Batman' television series. It is a part I will always be grateful for, because it was one of the great parts ever written for a woman. She was sexy, sassy and successful. I played many things, but that is what I will probably be best remembered as.

Some people have dogs... I like leaves. I like plants, and I like flowers too. Ecstasy is big in my life.

We live in this fabulous place, Southern California, with fabulous weather and abundance, so you share your wealth, and you share your bounty. You take everything you have and make it better.

Beauty is what I feel my life is about - the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn't.