Top 154 Betty Quotes & Sayings

In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.

I never try to avoid 'Ugly Betty' fans, as I love them.

Betty White is probably a very nice woman.

Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

I'm not so much surprised by the success of 'Ugly Betty' as I am feeling so blessed by it.

This phenomenon with Betty White is so wonderfully amazing. In a world where ageism runs rampant, out of left field, all of a sudden, the country decides to celebrate Betty White, and she becomes cool at 90. That's remarkable.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

I'm so sick of Betty White.

My grandmother, Betty Bertha Bright, lived in the Armenian block in Kolkata. After '36 Chowringhee Lane,' we haven't seen that part of the city in films.

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.

I admire the older ladies who carry on working. Look at Betty Driver on 'Coronation Street' - she's incredible.

Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.

If we were writing what the fans wanted to see, Betty and Jughead would be the most linear, monotonous narrative of all time.

I came from a small town in Pennsylvania - where 'style' was whatever was new at the Gap. Being on 'Ugly Betty' at such a crucial time in my life sparked my love for the industry.

I will have one of the cleanest obits of any actress. I never did cheesecake like Ann Sheridan or Betty Grable. I just used my hair.

'Ugly Betty' taught me everything about fashion.

I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.

I'm pretty sure that changing diapers of all sizes isn't the kind of women's work Betty Friedan had in mind, nor Linda Hirshman.

Growing up, I loved looking at the photos in my mother's old Betty Crocker cookbook: the chocolate cakes, the cookie house, even the cheese balls and fondues.

I think Betty White is one of the sexiest women in America.

[Betty in Two Evil Eyes]was my very first on-camera role. With Harvey Keitel.

When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?

Betty White met with President Obama at the White House. President Obama invited Betty personally because she's great with animals. And the president's still having a tough time house-training Joe Biden.

Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job

[Dario Argento] speaks very broken English - he's Italian, so I'm going to do a very bad Italian impersonation - but he asked me my name, and I told him, and he goes, "Walk across the room." He looked at me, and he said, "Do you want to be in my movie [Two Evil Eyes]?" I was, like, "Yeah! Yeah, I do!"He goes, "Okay! You play Betty!" And I was, like, "Oh, I'm playing an extra named Betty! Great!" So we walked out, thinking that I was playing an extra named Betty, no lines, just background.

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.

I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.

I'm so sick of Betty White. Never liked her.

I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland.

I like to do variations of all kinds of different work. One of my roles in Israel was for the theatre - Romeo & Juliet. So from that role I went to - I was playing, I believe her name was Amanda in the U.S., on "Ugly Betty."

I'll tell you, I'm loving everything Betty White's doing. She's 90!

Has there ever been anybody, real or fictional, whiter than Betty Crocker?

'The Feminine Mystique' goads me to gratitude that, thanks to forerunners like Betty Friedan, I've had the opportunity to pursue a career.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

It was Jimi Hendrix that I first got into when Betty Mabry turned me on to him.

When I would read the 'Archie' comics when I was younger, I was rooting for Betty and Archie way over any alternative.

Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.

I met Betty Moore when she entered Mitchell High School as a freshman, and that was it - period, exclamation point!

I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.

I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.

'Ugly Betty' has opened my eyes to the world of fashion journalism - I'm looking forward to going to college for that. Until then, I don't know. Will I appear on 'Glee?'

Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.

A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.

Betty White's Sue Ann Nivens was classic... She had done so much with that man-crazy character! Betty made every moment count. She still does. I've declared her an American treasure, because she is just that.

When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.

I love Archie. I love Jughead. I like Reggie. I think my favorite character in the show is Betty. Obviously, I can't imagine myself playing that character, but if I had to choose a character, I really love Betty.

Betty White is so old that on her first game show ever, the prize was fire.

I wasn't the first choice for the role of Danny Tanner. Betty White was. Not true, but there was another actor whom they had shot the pilot with.

No more Botox for me. Betty White's bowels move more than my face.

I was never the glamorous type like Betty Grable.

She is an office girl, her name is Betty. Her favorite group is Helen Reddy.

The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. Do you know who lit the flame? Betty White.

Tim Henman has the all-time Betty Crocker draw. We're talking Easy Bake Oven.

I say to myself: 'Come on, Betty, you can't have everything in life. You've been very lucky.'

I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?

Betty White jokes are just not for me.

I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf.

In the beginning, believe it or not, me and Acid Betty were good friends.

To be honest, I probably wouldn't have gone to Hollywood if I hadn't been offered 'Ugly Betty' because I was a wee bit feart. But you have to make yourself frightened. That's what keeps you alive.