Quotes from Betty White

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

I have the backbone of an eel.

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.

I love Cadillacs and name them after birds.

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

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.'

I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!

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

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.

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

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

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.

It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.

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

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

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.

Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health - I don't abuse it.

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.