I have the backbone of an eel.
BETTY WHITEAnimals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
More Betty White Quotes
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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 may be a senior, but so what? I’m still hot.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they’re spying on somebody who doesn’t know they’re looking at them. And nobody takes it seriously – you either enjoy it and get a laugh out of the reactions or not.
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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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The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.
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Anger tears me up inside, My own, or anyone else’s.
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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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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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Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I’ve devoted my life to trying to improve their lives.
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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.
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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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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 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 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 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 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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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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A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.
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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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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’m in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
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