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Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don’t get that laugh, there’s something wrong.

Betty White

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 WHITE

Failure Greatness Myself Sound Work
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?
BETTY WHITE

Enjoyment Love Myself Retirement
I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
BETTY WHITE

Dirty Humor Myself Preference
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.
BETTY WHITE

Children Dog Myself People Personal Responsibility
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
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 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 don’t know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
BETTY WHITE

Animal Learning Turn Yourself
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.
BETTY WHITE

Funny Humor Joke Yourself
I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
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Animal Business Myself Pay Show Stay
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
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
I’m in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
BETTY WHITE

Animal Book Myself Writing
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’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 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
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

Eyes Goodness Lying Sleep Thing Yourself
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.
BETTY WHITE

Bad Exercise Home Memories Myself Time
Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we’re abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.
BETTY WHITE

Beautiful Hard Myself Planet Return Wild
I have the backbone of an eel.
BETTY WHITE

Backbone Myself Strength
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 WHITE

Care Couple Marriage Myself People Relationship Sleep
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
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.
BETTY WHITE

Disappear Hate Man Myself Open Protection Road Walk
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 was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
BETTY WHITE

Hollywood Myself Production Woman
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

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