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!
BETTY WHITERetirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way.
More Betty White Quotes
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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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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’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 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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I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.
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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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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’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’ve enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.
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I don’t get political.
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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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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.’
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I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!
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I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
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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 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 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 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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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.
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I have the backbone of an eel.
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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 think older women still have a full life.
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I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that’s about as much cooking as I do.
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I don’t know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
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