Anger tears me up inside, My own, or anyone else’s.
BETTY WHITEIt’s been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven’t been away, guys. I’ve been working steadily for the last 63 years.
More Betty White Quotes
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I think that a show that is as successful as ‘The Golden Girls’ is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. If you don’t feel proud to be part of a show that has that kind of track record, then shame on you, because that’s a privilege.
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When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and ‘Oh my gosh – look what it’s doing!’
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I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
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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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Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
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When I realized I could use Facebook as a way to communicate directly with my fans, I thought it would be a great idea.
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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 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’m in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
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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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Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way.
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I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
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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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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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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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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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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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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 stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
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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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Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health – I don’t abuse it.
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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 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 kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!
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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 may be a senior, but so what? I’m still hot.
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