Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way.
BETTY WHITEIt’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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Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health – I don’t abuse it.
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I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It’s – but it all goes back to ‘Mary Tyler Moore,’ ‘Golden Girls,’ all those – actors love to take the credit. We couldn’t do it without the writers.
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If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn’t work, you’re a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn’t sound great to me!
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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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I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He’s a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
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Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don’t get that laugh, there’s something wrong.
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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 just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.
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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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I may be a senior, but so what? I’m still hot.
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You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
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I didn’t know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.
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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 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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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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