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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

Betty White

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 WHITE

Disappear Hate Man Myself Open Protection Road Walk
You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
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Animal Character Hands Yourself
A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.
BETTY WHITE

Appreciation Body Comment Compliment Eyes Myself
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.
BETTY WHITE

Children Funny Laughter Mom Myself
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!
BETTY WHITE

Failure Greatness Myself Sound Work
I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
BETTY WHITE

Hollywood Myself Production Woman
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?
BETTY WHITE

Enjoyment Love Myself Retirement
I don’t care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time – and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones – I think it’s fine if they want to get married. I don’t know how people can get so anti-something.
BETTY WHITE

Care Couple Marriage Myself People Relationship Sleep
Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don’t get that laugh, there’s something wrong.
BETTY WHITE

Comedy Drama Easy Laughter Myself Wrong
It’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.
BETTY WHITE

Congrats Hard Work Myself Phenomenal Work
I don’t know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
BETTY WHITE

Animal Learning Turn Yourself
I think that a show that is as successful as ‘The Golden Girls’ is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. If you don’t feel proud to be part of a show that has that kind of track record, then shame on you, because that’s a privilege.
BETTY WHITE

Feeling Myself Privilege Proud Record Success Thinking Track
I’m the luckiest broad on two feet, I’ll tell you that. They say once a woman passes 40 she doesn’t get any good parts, so I’m blessed.
BETTY WHITE

Age Blessing Myself Pass Time Woman
I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He’s a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
BETTY WHITE

Breed Career Dog Guide Myself Pet
I have the backbone of an eel.
BETTY WHITE

Backbone Myself Strength
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.’
BETTY WHITE

Activist Animal Focus Myself Point Problem Public Thinking
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.
BETTY WHITE

Beautiful Hard Myself Planet Return Wild
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.
BETTY WHITE

Myself Social Media Sound Unknown Wasted Time
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.
BETTY WHITE

Children Focus Management Myself Pregnant Thinking
I’m in the acting business. That’s the ego business.
BETTY WHITE

Act Business Ego Myself
I’ve enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.
BETTY WHITE

Enjoyment Myself Sex Willing
Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health – I don’t abuse it.
BETTY WHITE

Abuse Care Comedy Fun Health Myself
I just want to bring as much natural as I can. I’m not saying that people who take acting lessons are false. They’re much better than I am, but it doesn’t work for me.
BETTY WHITE

Lesson Myself Natural People Work
When I realized I could use Facebook as a way to communicate directly with my fans, I thought it would be a great idea.
BETTY WHITE

Communication Direction Greatness Idea Myself Realization
I’m a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
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Myself Negative Optimism Positive Try
I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
BETTY WHITE

Dirty Humor Myself Preference
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.
BETTY WHITE

Funny Humor Joke Yourself

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

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