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’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.
More Betty White Quotes
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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!’
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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 have the backbone of an eel.
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I may be a senior, but so what? I’m still hot.
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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 stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
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Anger tears me up inside, My own, or anyone else’s.
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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’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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Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
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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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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 don’t get political.
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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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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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