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 WHITEI 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.
More Betty White Quotes
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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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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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The 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.
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I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!
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I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.
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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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It’s fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.
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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’ve enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.
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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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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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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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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 go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that’s about as much cooking as I do.
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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 think older women still have a full life.
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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 have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He’s a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
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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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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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I’m in the acting business. That’s the ego business.
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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 have the backbone of an eel.
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I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
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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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