Betty White Quotes

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

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

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

I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes! ~ Betty White

I know how lucky I am to have had such wonderful first and second acts in my career. I'm still not sure what my third act will turn out to be (Sexy Baking Competition Hostess? Flamboyant Peruvian Bingo Caller?), but if you happen to run into Betty White, tell her thank you.

I'd like to be her one day. ~ Lauren Graham

Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line. ~ Betty White

Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts. ~ Betty White

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. ~ Betty White

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on. ~ Betty White

'Mary Tyler Moore' was - it was my first big hit. ~ Betty White

If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon, but right now, I'm working with these wonderful women on 'Hot in Cleveland,' and Valerie Bertinelli, and Wendy Malick and Jane Leeves are like, it's like the buddy-ship we had on 'Golden Girls' and 'Mary Tyler Moore.' ~ Betty White

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

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

We didn't have Facebook in my day, we had a phone book but you wouldn't waste an afternoon on it ~ Betty White

I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business. ~ Betty White

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

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

If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble. ~ Betty White

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal. ~ Betty White

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

Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like. ~ Yvette Nicole Brown

I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He's a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind. ~ Betty White

Throughout my career, I've always portrayed characters that were humorous, but also weren't afraid to speak their minds, especially when it came to racy or controversial topics. I think this struck a chord with the LGBT community. We both also share a very strong love for animals. When you combine the two, it's a very strong match. ~ Betty White

I'm wearing a put-together from a little shop that I favor called the back of my closet. ~ Betty White

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." ~ Betty White

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. ~ Betty White

People who don't like cats haven't been around them. There's the old joke: dogs have masters, cats have staff. ~ Betty White

It's [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game. ~ Betty White

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

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

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

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative. ~ Betty White

You gotta use everything you possibly can! ~ Betty White

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

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

I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.' ~ Betty White

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

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. ~ Betty White

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it. ~ Betty White

When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people. ~ Betty White

I'm a teenager trapped in an old body. ~ Betty White

If the guy's a cutie, you've gotta tap that booty. ~ Betty White

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

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

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

I don't care who anybody sleeps with, ~ Betty White

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business. ~ Betty White

Sex is pretty funny, let's face it. And the more seriously we take ourselves, the funnier sex gets, I think. ~ Betty White

I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo. ~ Betty White

I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on that. But crossword puzzles, I just can't - if I get a puppy and I paper train him and I put the - if all of a sudden I'd open the paper and there's a crossword puzzle - 'No, no, you can't go on that, honey. I'll take it.' ~ Betty White

The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It's much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more - I want to say 'sophisticated.' ~ Betty White

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. ~ Betty White

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

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

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

I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple. ~ Betty White

I didn't know I was a gay icon. I get a lot of mail - but I don't get many bad letters - but I got a woman the other day that was so upset with me because they said, 'How do you feel about the gay marriage thing?' and my answer to that is, 'I really don't care with whom you sleep, I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.' I figure all the rest of it is your business and not mine. And not hers, incidentally. ~ Betty White

Now that I'm 91, as opposed to being 90, I'm much wiser. I'm much more aware and I'm much sexier. ~ Betty White

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

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

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

Literally it's the precise moment when dog doo turns white, but in general it refers to the type of person you don't want to share your hoogencogles with. ~ Betty White

The film industry gives you the opportunity to meet interesting people. ~ Betty White

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

Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods. ~ Betty White

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. ~ Betty White

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

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

If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a big spay-and-neuter supporter. Don't have babies if you're not going to take care of those babies. We don't need more. We just need to take care of the ones we have. Take responsibility and breathe kindness. ~ Betty White

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today. ~ Betty White

I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do. ~ Betty White

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

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. ~ Betty White

When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness. ~ Betty White

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

Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life to trying to improve their lives. ~ Betty White

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

I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot. ~ Betty White

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom. ~ Betty White

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

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.' ~ Betty White

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

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. ~ Betty White

I'm so sick of Betty White. Never liked her. ~ Cloris Leachman

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. ~ Betty White

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. ~ Betty White

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

If you don't believe something, then don't say it. Saying it only gives it power. ~Betty White ~ Carrie Jones

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

I don't get political. ~ Betty White

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Betty White

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

Vodka is kind of a hobby. ~ Betty White

We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit. ~ Betty White

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

The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. Do you know who lit the flame? Betty White. ~ Jay Leno