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.
BETTY WHITEI 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.
BETTY WHITEDoing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don’t get that laugh, there’s something wrong.
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.
BETTY WHITEA good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
BETTY WHITEI don’t seem to require a lot of sleep. I just – if I get four, five good hours, I’m fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There’s a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.
BETTY WHITEI stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
BETTY WHITEWilderness 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 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.
BETTY WHITEI 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 WHITEI’m in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
BETTY WHITEI’m having the time of my life and the fact that I’m still working – how lucky can you get? I’m 90 years old and still able to work as much as I do. That’s a privilege.
BETTY WHITEDuring 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.
BETTY WHITEI 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.
BETTY WHITERetirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way.
BETTY WHITEI don’t know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
BETTY WHITEIt’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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