Betty White Quotes
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Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.
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I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He's a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
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If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.
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Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.
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The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It's much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more - I want to say 'sophisticated.'
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I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
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I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.
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I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.
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It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.
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I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
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I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
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Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
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Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!
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I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.
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I'm the luckiest broad on two feet, I'll tell you that. They say once a woman passes 40 she doesn't get any good parts, so I'm blessed.
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I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.
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I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.
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Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life to trying to improve their lives.
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I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.
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The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.
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It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven't been away, guys. I've been working steadily for the last 63 years.
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I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don't get it don't know about it.
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I'm having the time of my life and the fact that I'm still working - how lucky can you get? I'm 90 years old and still able to work as much as I do. That's a privilege.
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Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.