Betty White Quotes

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

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

I'm a teenager trapped in an old body.

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

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

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

Get at least 8 hours of beauty sleep. 9 if you're ugly.

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

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

I don't know how 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.

Vodka is kind of a hobby.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it's one passion or a hundred, that's what keep life interesting.

There is no fool like an old fool.

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.

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

I have the backbone of an eel.

My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'

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

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

Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.

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.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

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.

Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

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

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

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.

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

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.

I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.

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.

If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon.

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

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.

I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.

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.

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.

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

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

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.