Selected Quotes By Betty White
"Butterflies are like women – we may look pretty and delicate, but baby, we can fly through a hurricane."
Betty White, Sex
"You don’t luck into integrity. You work at it."
Betty White, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself keeps you feeling young."
Betty White, Kindness
"Keep the other person’s well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on."
Betty White, Truth
"I just care what kind of a decent human being you are."
Betty White, Life
"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, Life, Happiness
"I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple."
Betty White, Life, Happiness
"The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot … It’s much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more ... I want to say 'sophisticated.'"
Betty White, Art, Happiness
"I just laugh. Have I got them fooled."
Betty White, Intelligence/Wisdom
"I know it sounds corny, but I try to see the funny side and the upside, not the downside. I get bored with people who complain about this or that. It’s such a waste of time."
Betty White, Happiness
"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, Happiness
"If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble."
Betty White, Life
"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, Art, Happiness
"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, you know."
Betty White, Happiness, Music
"Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don’t get that laugh, there’s something wrong."
Betty White, Art
"Laughter keeps everyone feeling wonderful."
Betty White, Happiness
"I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business."
Betty White, Work
"Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not."
Betty White, Sex
"When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people."
Betty White, Happiness
"You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal."
Betty White, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do."
Betty White, Society
"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."
Betty White, Life
"Best thing about being in your 90s is you’re spoiled rotten. Everybody spoils you like mad, and they treat you with such respect because you’re old. Little do they know, you haven’t changed. You haven’t changed in [the brain]. You’re just 90 everyplace else."
Betty White, Time
"I’m a teenager trapped in an old body."
Betty White, Time
"Does desire melt away with age? I’m waiting for that day to come."
Betty White, Time
"You’re never too old for anything."
Betty White, Time
"Everybody needs a passion. That’s what keeps life interesting. If you live without passion, you can go through life without leaving any footprints."
Betty White, Life
"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, Time
"My philosophy for staying young is [to] act bubbly every day, drink bubbly every birthday!"
Betty White, Intelligence/Wisdom
"My mother always used to say, 'The older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana."
Betty White, Intelligence/Wisdom
"People say, ‘But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.’ Well, at my age, if I want to connect with old friends I need a Ouija board."
Betty White, Friendship, Death
"I may be a senior, but so what? I’m still hot."
Betty White, Sex
"I have no regrets at all. None. I consider myself to be the luckiest old broad on two feet."
Betty White, Happiness
"I think older women still have a full life."
Betty White, Life
"Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren’t going to get rid of me that way."