I’m in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
BETTY WHITEWhy 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?
More Betty White Quotes
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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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Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.
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I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!
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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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I’ve enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.
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I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
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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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It’s fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.
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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’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 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 have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He’s a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
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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.
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It’s been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven’t been away, guys. I’ve been working steadily for the last 63 years.
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A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.
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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 go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that’s about as much cooking as I do.
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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 may be a senior, but so what? I’m still hot.
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I have the backbone of an eel.
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Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health – I don’t abuse it.
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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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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’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.
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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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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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