I’m a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
BETTY WHITEI 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.
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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Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I’ve devoted my life to trying to improve their lives.
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I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I’m the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I’m not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I’m just relaxing and enjoying it.
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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 am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It’s – but it all goes back to ‘Mary Tyler Moore,’ ‘Golden Girls,’ all those – actors love to take the credit. We couldn’t do it without the writers.
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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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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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Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.
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I have the backbone of an eel.
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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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The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.
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I think older women still have a full life.
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I don’t know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
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I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
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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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