“I may be a senior, but so what? I’m still hot.”

I’m a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

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.

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.

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.

I think it’s your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that’s a waste of a lovely life. ‘Oh… I’m 30, oh, I’m 40, oh, 50.’ Make the most of it.

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.’

Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

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.

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health – I don’t abuse it.

I’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.

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.

When I realized I could use Facebook as a way to communicate directly with my fans, I thought it would be a great idea.

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!

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.

I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.

I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.

At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.

Never bored, so I’ll never get old.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.

The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.

Minds ripen at very different ages.