It’s fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.
BETTY WHITEI’m a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
More Betty White Quotes
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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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I may be a senior, but so what? I’m still hot.
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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.
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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 really don’t care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.
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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 just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.
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I have the backbone of an eel.
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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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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 go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that’s about as much cooking as I do.
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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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I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
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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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I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
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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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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’m in the acting business. That’s the ego business.
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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.
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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 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 don’t get political.
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Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.
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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.
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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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