Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, ‘Well, I’ll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.’ And it doesn’t work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.
BETTY WHITEThe writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.
More Betty White Quotes
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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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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’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.
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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.
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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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I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
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Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.
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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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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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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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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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A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.
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I didn’t know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.
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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’ve worked with Morris Animal Foundation for more than 40 years now, and I’m so proud of all they’ve done to advance veterinary medicine for animals worldwide.
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I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!
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I think older women still have a full life.
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I 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.
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I’m so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn’t choose to have children because I’m focused on my career. And I just don’t think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.
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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 really don’t care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.
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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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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 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’ve enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.
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