You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
BETTY WHITEI 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.
More Betty White Quotes
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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’m not what you might call sexy, but I’m romantic. Let’s put it that way.
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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 the backbone of an eel.
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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 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 just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.
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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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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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Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way.
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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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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 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’m in the acting business. That’s the ego business.
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I don’t get political.
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