244 Quotes by Betty White

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

When I’m around animals, I don’t pay attention to people.

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.

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

I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don’t think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children – which I have never regretted.