Latest Betty White Quotes from Interviews

• 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.

  Betty White

  Fun, Grateful, Laughing

  Fuente: www.smh.com.au

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

  Betty White

  Oportunidad, Gente, Dar

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

  Betty White

  Dog, Cat, People

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

  Betty White

  Animal, People, Attention

  Source: www.starwordsonline.com

• 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.

  Betty White

  Years, Stories, Lines

  Source: movieline.com

• 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.

  Betty White

  Fun, Faces, Comedy

• 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.

  Betty White

  Couple, Laughing, Trying

  "Q&A: Betty White Talks ‘Off Their Rockers’, ‘Hot in Cleveland’ and Her Long, Wonderful Career". Interview, www.dailyactor.com. April 24, 2012.

• 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.

  Betty White

  Thinking, People, Larks

• Cuando empiezas a explicar por qué algo es divertido o a buscarle una fórmula, creo que pierde parte de su gracia.

  Betty White

  Thinking, Explaining, Funniness

  "Q&A: Betty White Talks ‘Off Their Rockers’, ‘Hot in Cleveland’ and Her Long, Wonderful Career". Interview, www.dailyactor.com. April 24, 2012.

• 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.

  Betty White

  Blessed, Acting, Letters

• 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.

  Betty White

  Blessed, Grateful, Excited

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

  Betty White

  Sex, Thinking, Faces

  "Press Tour: Betty White talks senior pranks and ‘Off Their Rockers’" by Liane Bonin Starr, uproxx.com. January 6, 2012.

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

  Betty White

  Trying, Credit, Actors

  Source: www.lenalamoray.com

• 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.

  Betty White

  Thinking, Self, Elbows

  Source: www.lenalamoray.com

• 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.

  Betty White

  Blessed, Loving What You Do, Giving

  Source: www.lenalamoray.com

• 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.

  Betty White

  Hablar, Dos, Personas

  Source: www.lenalamoray.com

• 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.

  Betty White

  Long, Kind, Beats

  "Interview With Betty White And Chris Coelen About The New Season Of NBC’s “Off Their Rockers”!". Interview with Kristyn Clarke, worldofpopculture.com.

• 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.

  Betty White

  Writing, Play, Laughing

• 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.

  Betty White

  Moving, Differences, Acting

• 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.

  Betty White

  People, Miracle, Rooms

• 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."

  Betty White

  Father, Home, School

  Fuente: articles.chicagotribune.com

• 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.

  Betty White

  Thinking, Addresses, Facts

  "Betty White looks back on ‘The Golden Girls’". Associated Press Interview, blog.chron.com. September 15, 2010.

• 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.

  Betty White

  Retirement, Dirty, Asking

• 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.

  Betty White

  Fun, Blessed, Blessing

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Betty White

  Blessed, Goes On, Scripts

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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