Betty White Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
-
One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
-
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
-
Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
-
I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
-
After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
-
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
-
I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
-
It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
-
I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
-
Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
-
I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
-
Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
-
You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
-
I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
-
I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
-
I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
-
I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
-
The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness
-
If you see a dog in a hot car, and you think that he's in danger or that he's been there for a while, it's good to speak up... Go into whatever businesses it's parked outside of, and just raise awareness about it.
-
On her daughter, Jessica: Kids at her school will sidle up to me and say, Does Jessica know what happens in book 4? Does Jessica know the title of book 4? And I keep saying, No! There is no point kidnapping her, taking her around back of the bike shed, and torturing her for information.
-
When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!
-
Some things in life need to be mysterious. Sometimes you need to just keep walking. … It’s hard for me to look at a great nation issuing these documents and sending them out to the world and thinking, oh, much good will come of that.
-
Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.