Top 100 Quotes About Betty White
#1. I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide.
Elaine Stritch
#2. I think Betty White is one of the sexiest women in America.
Robert Pattinson
#3. Why do people say, "Grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding. -Betty White
Lani Lynn Vale
#4. I wanted to have a Vanna White look alike contest here, the only problem was, most of the girls who showed up look like Betty White.
Raven
#5. I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.
Ellen DeGeneres
#6. I asked the indefatigable Betty White what she was going to do when she got home. She told me she was going to fix herself a "vodka on the rocks and eat a cold hot dog." In one sentence, she proved my theory and made me excited for my future.
Amy Poehler
#7. If you don't believe something, then don't say it. Saying it only gives it power. ~Betty White
Carrie Jones
#9. The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. Do you know who lit the flame? Betty White.
Jay Leno
#10. I remember liking Betty White a lot. It was one of those things as a little child actress, you get inspired by experienced actresses and actresses that reach out to you.
Ariana Richards
#12. Betty White's Sue Ann Nivens was classic ... She had done so much with that man-crazy character! Betty made every moment count. She still does. I've declared her an American treasure, because she is just that.
Gavin MacLeod
#13. Zander says you are." "Zander also maintains that Betty White isn't the only surviving member of The Golden Girls and that a reunion is still possible if someone could just uncover the conspiracy,
Lily Harper Hart
#14. Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
Yvette Nicole Brown
#15. I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.
Cheech Marin
#16. I'll tell you, I'm loving everything Betty White's doing. She's 90!
Marla Gibbs
#17. No more Botox for me. Betty White's bowels move more than my face.
Joan Rivers
#18. Betty White met with President Obama at the White House. President Obama invited Betty personally because she's great with animals. And the president's still having a tough time house-training Joe Biden.
Craig Ferguson
#19. In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.
Brian Williams
#20. Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.
Odette Annable
#21. Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.
Betty White
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.
Betty White
#25. 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!
Betty White
#26. I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
Betty White
#27. 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.
Betty White
#28. 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
#29. When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.
Betty White
#31. 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
#32. 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.
Betty White
#33. I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!
Betty White
#34. 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.
Betty White
#35. 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.
Betty White
#36. I think older women still have a full life.
Betty White
#37. 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
#38. Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life to trying to improve their lives.
Betty White
#39. 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.
Betty White
#40. I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.
Betty White
#41. The thing that I love about television there are no more than two or three people watching you at a time. If there are more than two or three people in a room they're talking to each other, they're not listening to you.
Betty White
#42. 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
#43. 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.
Betty White
#44. Get at least 8 hours of beauty sleep. 9 if you're ugly.
Betty White
#45. Friendship takes time and energy if it's going to work. You can luck into something great, but it doesn't last if you don't give it proper appreciation. Friendship can be so comfortable, but nurture it-don't take it for granted.
Betty White
#46. I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
Betty White
#47. We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.
Betty White
#48. We didn't have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn't waste an afternoon on it
Betty White
#49. You can do anything you want in the United States of you wear a suit and tie...especially if you are white. That also helps.
Betty Medsger
#50. The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower ... in the White House.
Betty Hill
#51. I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He's a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
Betty White
#52. Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health - I don't abuse it.
Betty White
#53. 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
#54. 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.
Betty White
#55. 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.
Betty White
#56. I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!
Betty White
#57. Those that just talk are also the ones that say, 'Why don't they do this?' and 'Why don't they do that?' Well, they're they. We're all they, and we can all do a little something.
Betty White
#58. You gotta use everything you possibly can!
Betty White
#59. 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
#60. I'm wearing a put-together from a little shop that I favor called the back of my closet.
Betty White
#61. Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.
Betty White
#62. 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.
Betty White
#63. 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.
Betty White
#64. 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
#65. 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.
Betty White
#66. The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.
Betty Friedan
#68. A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.
Betty White
#69. I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.
Betty White
#70. 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
#71. 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.
Betty White
#73. 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.
Betty White
#74. 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.
Betty White
#75. I've always had a bawdy sense of humor. My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He would say, "Honey, you can take this one to school, but you can't take that one to school."
Betty White
#76. You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.
Betty White
#77. I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.
Betty White
#78. 'Mary Tyler Moore' was - it was my first big hit.
Betty White
#79. It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.
Betty White
#80. 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
#81. 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.
Betty White
#82. Anger tears me up inside ... My own ... or anyone else's.
Betty White
#83. Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment
Betty White
#84. Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.
Betty White
#85. 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.
Betty White
#86. Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.
Betty White
#87. I'm a teenager trapped in an old body.
Betty White
#88. Sex is pretty funny, let's face it. And the more seriously we take ourselves, the funnier sex gets, I think.
Betty White
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
Betty White
#92. When I realized I could use Facebook as a way to communicate directly with my fans, I thought it would be a great idea.
Betty White
#93. Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
Betty White
#94. People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends ... '
.. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board
Betty White
#95. 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.
Betty White
#96. Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.
Betty White
#97. I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.
Monica Lewinsky
#98. I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy happen without the elbow nudge, did you get it, did you get it. I love straight face comedy or subtle - relatively subtle comedy.
Betty White
#99. Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.
Betty White
#100. 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.
Betty White
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