When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and ‘Oh my gosh – look what it’s doing!’
BETTY WHITEI’m in the acting business. That’s the ego business.
More Betty White Quotes
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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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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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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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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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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.
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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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I’m so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn’t choose to have children because I’m focused on my career. And I just don’t think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.
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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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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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You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
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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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You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, ‘Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I’m going to hear all the things I don’t want to hear.’
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A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.
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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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