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.
BETTY WHITEI was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
More Betty White Quotes
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Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.
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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’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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I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don’t appreciate it.
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I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just – there wasn’t a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.
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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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The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.
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I’m a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
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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 stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
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Why retire from something if you’re loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you’re blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on ‘Hot in Cleveland?’ Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?
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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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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 don’t get political.
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Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way.
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