Top 100 Betty White Quotes
#1. Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.
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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!
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#5. I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
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#6. Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing. If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don't like.
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#7. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. As the years went on, the audience has become very jaded. They've heard every joke, they've seen every story line, they know where you're going before you even start to get there. And that's a hard audience to keep interested.
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#11. It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.
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#12. I always tape my Christmas show in advance. That way I can spend the season of joy and goodwill with my only sister in Florida. She's kinda a creep but she's got a pool.
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#13. 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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#14. Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life to trying to improve their lives.
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#15. I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.
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#16. I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.
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#17. 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.
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#18. I happen to be blessed with loving what I do for a living. I love acting and I'm so fortunate to be able to work in this business. And I get these marvelous letters about how encouraging it is to see someone making the most of their time and still enjoying it.
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#19. I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
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#20. We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.
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#21. We didn't have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn't waste an afternoon on it
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#22. 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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#23. 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.
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#24. I'm blessed with good health for which I'm deeply grateful, so for that reason, I feel so good. Everybody else is far more excited about the 90 than I am.
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#25. I'm blessed with learning easily. I've always had a good thing about memorizing quickly, and I just leave the script kind of open somewhere, and as I walk by I'll just take a swipe at it and then go on about my business and pretty soon it sticks.
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#26. You gotta use everything you possibly can!
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#27. 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!
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#28. I'm wearing a put-together from a little shop that I favor called the back of my closet.
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#29. Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.
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#30. Oh, I don't need sleep. I just went to my hotel room and had a cold hot dog and a vodka on the rocks.
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#31. When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.
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#32. 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.
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#33. I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.
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#35. A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.
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#36. I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.
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#37. 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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#38. My blessing is I'm blessed with good health. If I weren't feeling good or if I didn't have the energy, then it's not that much fun. But this way, you can get away with murder because you're going to be 90 in January.
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#40. I love straight-face comedy or relatively subtle comedy. And then I turn around and I find myself doing very broad comedy but it's all fun and you have to keep your sense of humor and not take yourself seriously.
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#41. I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.
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#42. 'Mary Tyler Moore' was - it was my first big hit.
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#43. 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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#44. I won't do anything that is connected with drugs. I've seen drugs ruin so many people's lives. I don't think there's anything cute about drugs. And I don't believe in celebrating them.
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#45. Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment
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#46. Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.
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#47. One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.
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#48. Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.
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#49. I'm a teenager trapped in an old body.
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#50. Sex is pretty funny, let's face it. And the more seriously we take ourselves, the funnier sex gets, I think.
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#51. 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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#52. You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
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#53. When I realized I could use Facebook as a way to communicate directly with my fans, I thought it would be a great idea.
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#54. Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
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#55. Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.
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#56. 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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#57. I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.
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#58. 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.'
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#59. 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.
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#60. People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.
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#61. 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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#62. I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
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#63. I love Cadillacs and name them after birds.
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#64. Humor is like a rhythm; it's like music. And you throw a couple of extra syllables in, you wreck the beat and you kill the laugh. So I try to follow the writers very carefully because I know how carefully they worked to do it that way.
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#65. The film industry gives you the opportunity to meet interesting people.
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#66. I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
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#67. Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.
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#68. I don't know people get so anti-something. Just mind your own business, take care of your own affairs, and don't worry about other people so much.
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#69. Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can sense the reaction from the audience and quickly move on.
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#70. 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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#71. Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.
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#72. 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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#73. 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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#75. My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.
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#76. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.
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#77. During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.
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#78. 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.
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#79. We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?
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#80. Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.
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#81. 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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#83. A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are. I learned at my mother's knee it's better to appreciate what's happening ... I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes.
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#84. I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.
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#85. I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it's one passion or a hundred, that's what keep life interesting.
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#86. 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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#87. If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.
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#88. A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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#89. Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.
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#90. Now that I'm 91, as opposed to being 90, I'm much wiser. I'm much more aware and I'm much sexier.
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#91. I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.
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#92. I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.
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#93. I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
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#94. When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness.
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#95. I think a handwritten letter - a lot of guys don't realize what that means.It's those little romantic touches that tell a lady, "I like a lot of people, but you have a special place in my heart."
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#96. All creatures must learn to coexist. That's why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Of course, they can't mate or the mice would explode.
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#97. Being blessed with good health gives you the strength and loving what you do and - is a privilege that keeps you going. So I'm just happy as a lark.
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#99. 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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#100. If the guy's a cutie, you've gotta tap that booty.
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