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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.

Betty White

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.’
BETTY WHITE

Activist Animal Focus Myself Point Problem Public Thinking
I’m in the acting business. That’s the ego business.
BETTY WHITE

Act Business Ego Myself
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 WHITE

Blessing Myself People Stand Start Wonderful
You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
BETTY WHITE

Animal Character Hands Yourself
I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
BETTY WHITE

Hollywood Myself Production Woman
I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that’s about as much cooking as I do.
BETTY WHITE

Cook Dog Food Kitchen Myself
I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
BETTY WHITE

Dirty Humor Myself Preference
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.
BETTY WHITE

Feeling Myself Privilege Proud Record Success Thinking Track
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 WHITE

Fact Life Myself Privilege Time Work
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 WHITE

Children Funny Laughter Mom Myself
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.
BETTY WHITE

Age Blessing Myself Pass Time Woman
The bottom line is, I’m blessed with good health. On top of that, I don’t go around thinking ‘Oh, I’m 90, I better do this or I better do that.’ I’m just Betty. I’m the same Betty that I’ve always been. Take it or leave it.
BETTY WHITE

Blessing Goodness Health Leaving Myself Thinking
Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way.
BETTY WHITE

Funny Myself Retirement Vocabulary Way
I really don’t care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.
BETTY WHITE

Care Human Myself Sleep
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.
BETTY WHITE

Animal Doctor Medicine Myself Work World
I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.
BETTY WHITE

Business Fun Myself People Simplicity
I’m a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
BETTY WHITE

Myself Negative Optimism Positive Try
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.
BETTY WHITE

Enjoyment Myself People
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.
BETTY WHITE

Camera Enjoyment Hide People Reaction Serious Yourself
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.
BETTY WHITE

Lesson Myself Natural People Work
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!’
BETTY WHITE

Box Magic Room Start Television
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.
BETTY WHITE

Myself Social Media Sound Unknown Wasted Time
The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.
BETTY WHITE

Movie Stardom Success Writing
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.
BETTY WHITE

Actor Credit Love Lucky Myself Truth Writing
I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
BETTY WHITE

Animal Business Myself Pay Show Stay
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.
BETTY WHITE

Attitude Mental Myself Thinking Wasted Time
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.
BETTY WHITE

Children Focus Management Myself Pregnant Thinking

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 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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