I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.
BETTY WHITE
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Betty White59 quotes“I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.”
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Betty WhiteBetty White 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.
Betty WhiteBetty White 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.
Betty WhiteBetty White 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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Betty WhiteBetty White Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
Betty WhiteBetty White 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.
Betty WhiteBetty White A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
Betty WhiteBetty White Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health – I don’t abuse it.
Betty WhiteBetty White 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.
Betty WhiteBetty White 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.
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