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'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.
You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
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!
A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.
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.
I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.
Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!
I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.
The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.
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.'
Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.
I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.
My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.
I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He's a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.
It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven't been away, guys. I've been working steadily for the last 63 years.
I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.
Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.
