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Betty White, born on January 17, 1922, is an accomplished American actress. Known for her humor and likable personality, she has captivated audiences across generations with her performances in numerous television shows and films. White's contributions to the entertainment industry extend beyond her exceptional acting, as she has also been a mentor to young actors.

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“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.”

Age Youth Curiosity

Author:Betty White

“Butterflies are like women— we may look pretty and delicate, but baby, we can fly through a hurricane.”

Inspirational Funny Life Quote Soulmate Emmanuelle Snow Betty White

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

Lines Taken Blessed Bottom Gravity Bottom Line Good Health

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“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.”

People Thinking Believe Drug Don't Believe Connected Ruins Celebrate Cute

Author: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.”

People Ifs Would Be Today Forget Species Extinction Zoos

Author: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."”

People Thinking Heart Mean Littles Guy Realizing Special My Heart Letters Special Places Handwritten Letters

Author: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.”

Ifs Men Stills Sound Doors Disappear Polite Old Fashioned Chivalry

Author:Betty White

“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.”

Kind Walks Goes On Blessed Good Things Sticks Scripts Memorizing

Author: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.”

Ifs Way Feelings Energy Fun Blessing Murder Blessed Feel Good Get Away Good Health January My Blessing

Author:Betty White

“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.”

Ifs Want Asks Enjoy Asking Dirty Retirement Retiring Want Me Dirty Words

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“I think older women still have a full life. Maybe the writers don't address it these days, but it doesn't change the fact.”

Thinking Stills Facts These Days Addresses Full Life Older Women

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“You're never too old for anything!”

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

Ifs Knows Two Three Blessing Series Phenomenon Unusual

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“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.”

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“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.”

Feels Years Age Growing One Thing Like You Nine Old Age Eighty Growing Old Nine Years Old You Like Yourself

Book:If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)

Source: If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)

“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.”

People Needs Wells Kids Responsibility Streets Dog Work Out Personal Responsibility

Author: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."”

Home School Father Jokes Sense Of Humor Honey Salesman

Author:Betty White

“When I started in television, it was brand new. It was the miracle over in the corner of your room. Now the audience has seen every story line. People have heard every joke. They can predict the plot almost before a show starts. That's a hard, sophisticated audience to reach.”

People Hard Stories Shows Lines Rooms Audience Heard Television Jokes Miracle Corners Brands Plot Sophisticated Brand New Your Room

Author:Betty White

“So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as slipping on a banana peel. So much of the writing is so coarse, so obvious that it doesn't provide a shock, never mind a laugh. What makes something funny is alluding to it without laying it out explicitly. You let the audiences fill in the gaps and that's where the laughs come.”

Writing Mind Play Given Common Attention Audience Laughing Obvious Wit Shock Gaps Lowest Bananas Sitcom Slipping Coarse Common Denominator Lowest Common Denominator

Author: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.”

World Moving Actors Differences Acting Audience Reactions Timing

Author:Betty White

“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.”

Knows Kind Long Beats Rhythm

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“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.”

People Ifs Two Three Rooms Talking Television Listening

Author:Betty White

“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.”

Giving Blessed Privilege Good Health Being Blessed Larks Loving What You Do

Author:Betty White

“We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.”

Trying Actors Claims Credit

Author: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.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Self Happens Faces Comedy Conscious Subtle Self Conscious Elbows Nudge Straight Face

Author: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.”

Feels Reason Blessed Grateful Excited Good Health

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

Thinking Faces Sex

Author: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.”

Stills Happens Able Enjoy Acting Letters Blessed Fortunate Marvelous Being Blessed

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“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.”

People Thinking Retiring Good Health Time To Think Larks

Author:Betty White

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

Thinking Loses Findings Formulas Explaining Funniness

Author:Betty White

“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.”

Faces Turns Fun Comedy Subtle Broads Sense Of Humor Straight Face

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“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.”

Knows Way Trying Laughing Know How Couple Beats Rhythm Extras Wrecks Syllables

Author: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.”

Knows Years Hard Stories Lines Audience Heard Jokes Jaded

Author:Betty White

“When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.”

People Animal Pay Attention Pay Attention

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

People Dog Havens Masters Jokes Cat Staff Old Jokes

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“The film industry gives you the opportunity to meet interesting people.”

People Giving Film Opportunity Interesting Industry Film Industry

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“If you call me a comedian I will be very grateful. I will thank you profoundly. No, I love doing comedy. It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.”

Ifs Fun Enjoy Laughing Comedy Serious Grateful Comedian Call Me

Author:Betty White

“Retirement is not in my vocabulary.”

Retirement Vocabulary

Author:Betty White

“I can't get over that at this age I don't feel this age. I'm not trying to be any younger. I'm not lying about my age. If I were lying about my age, I would say I was 89. I'm just at one of those good times in one's life. I'm at one of the high spots. I'm healthy enough to enjoy it. I'm surrounded by friends I adore. Isn't that kind of the best way to sign off?”

Ifs Way Feels Trying Kind I Can Enough Age Lying Enjoy Healthy Best Way Spots Good Times Adore Get Over Signing Off Surrounded By Friends

Author: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.”

Needs Sleep Rooms Rocks Dog Cold Hot Hotel Hotel Rooms Vodka Hot Dog Need Sleep

Author:Betty White

“I'm wearing a put together from a little shop that I favor called The Back of My Closet.”

Littles Together Favors Shops Closets

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“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.”

People Ifs Courses Successful Doors Approach Scare End Times Spend Time Intimidating

Author:Betty White

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

Ifs Humans Lying Animal Handle Pet Criticize Moody Humans And Animals Don't Lie I Don't Lie

Book:If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)

Source: If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)

“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.”

Ifs Sometimes Everyday Everyday Life Outlook Outlook On Life

Author:Betty White

“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.”

Ifs Men Stills Hate Lost Sides Doors Streets Grew Walking Protect Grew Up I Hate Disappear Traffic Sidewalk Chivalry

Author:Betty White

“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!”

People Knows Trying Mind Wells Long Stills Enough Use Young Fun Stuff Decades Curious Be Young

Author:Betty White

“A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.”

Looks Eye Figures Personality Likes Comment Her Eyes Appreciated

Author:Betty White

“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.”

Knows Sound Huge Waste Wasting Time

Author:Betty White

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

Way Hands Animal

Author:Betty White

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

Dog Cooking Kitchen

Author:Betty White

About the Author

Born: January 17, 1922
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 136

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