I have the backbone of an eel.
BETTY WHITEThe bottom line is, I’m blessed with good health. On top of that, I don’t go around thinking ‘Oh, I’m 90, I better do this or I better do that.’ I’m just Betty. I’m the same Betty that I’ve always been. Take it or leave it.
More 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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Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way.
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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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I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
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I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
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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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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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I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that’s about as much cooking as I do.
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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 stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
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I may be a senior, but so what? I’m still hot.
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When I realized I could use Facebook as a way to communicate directly with my fans, I thought it would be a great idea.
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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 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 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 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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Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it’s got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can’t just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that – it’s got to be funny.
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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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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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During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.
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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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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 don’t know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
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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’ve enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.
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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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