You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
BETTY WHITEI really don’t care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.
More Betty White Quotes
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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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I have the backbone of an eel.
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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 may be a senior, but so what? I’m still hot.
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I’m a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
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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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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’m in the acting business. That’s the ego business.
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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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It’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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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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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.
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I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
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Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.
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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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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 like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
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I 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.
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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 don’t get political.
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I’ve enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.
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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 have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He’s a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
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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.
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I think older women still have a full life.
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