Betty White

“I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.”

“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.”

“During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.”

“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.”

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

“Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.”

“I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.”

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

“I'm having the time of my life and the fact that I'm still working - how lucky can you get? I'm 90 years old and still able to work as much as I do. That's a privilege.”

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

“I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they're spying on somebody who doesn't know they're looking at them. And nobody takes it seriously - you either enjoy it and get a laugh out of the reactions or not.”

“I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.”

“You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.”

“I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.”

“I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.”

“I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.”

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

“I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.”

“I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on that. But crossword puzzles, I just can't - if I get a puppy and I paper train him and I put the - if all of a sudden I'd open the paper and there's a crossword puzzle - 'No, no, you can't go on that, honey. I'll take it.'”

“I have the backbone of an eel.”