Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way.
BETTY WHITEI’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’m a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
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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 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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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 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 really don’t care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.
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I’m in the acting business. That’s the ego business.
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I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
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I don’t get political.
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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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The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.
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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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Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
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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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Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.
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