Betty White Quotes

I have the backbone of an eel.

Betty White

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• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Different
  • She
  • Beautiful

• Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Remember

• I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reborn
  • Sanctuary

• I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Know
  • Down

• One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Future
  • Predict
  • Few

• There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Words
  • Interesting
  • Know

• Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Free
  • Rich

• I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Myself
  • Memory
  • Self

• It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Country
  • Always
  • Positive

• To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Respect

• Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. … Whenever the Westerner hears the word 'psychological,' it always sounds to him like 'only psychological.'

  

  Carl Jung

• Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Water
  • Cold

• Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Good
  • Ambition

• The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Technology

• It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed to serving it.

  

  Danny Meyer

• Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

  

  Billy Crystal

• Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He's Big Daddy. He gives out these little soldiers and sons and angels and saints to help everybody else get through to him. I'm not the 'Jesus-only or you're going to Hell' kind of guy.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • God
  • Help
  • Guy

• There seems to be a great propensity in this business to write tear-jerkers, 'You-left-me' songs. I thought, 'Why don't I count my blessings by looking at what I have?' I'm pretty much an optimistic guy.

  

  Jerry Jeff Walker
  • Great
  • Why
  • Business

• If I did become Minister of Nudism, I'd be allowed to be on television every evening around nine thirty. I'd come on and say 'Good evening. This is the Minister of Nudism. Take off your clothes and begin to dance about.'

  

  Peter Cook
  • Good
  • Dance

• I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Job
  • Interested
  • Camera

• I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Powerful
  • Sometimes

• I have the backbone of an eel.

  

  Betty White