Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Betty White
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: January 17
Actor
Actress
Comedian
Film Actor
Model
Musician
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Voice Actor
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
Betty Marion White
Betty White Ludden
Betty Marion White Ludden
Like
Kill
Carefully
Follow
Rhythm
Couple
Beat
Laughing
Throw
Syllables
Humor
Beats
Wreck
Music
Writers
Wrecks
Trying
Laugh
Extra
Way
Worked
Extras

More quotes by Betty White

Image
Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.
Betty White
Image
Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
Betty White
Image
I don't care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time - and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones - I think it's fine if they want to get married. I don't know how people can get so anti-something.
Betty White
Image
'Mary Tyler Moore' was - it was my first big hit.
Betty White
Image
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
Image
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.
Betty White
Image
The film industry gives you the opportunity to meet interesting people.
Betty White
Image
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
Image
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.
Betty White
Image
I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it's one passion or a hundred, that's what keep life interesting.
Betty White
Image
I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
Betty White
Image
Oh, I don't need sleep. I just went to my hotel room and had a cold hot dog and a vodka on the rocks.
Betty White
Image
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.
Betty White
Image
Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.
Betty White
Image
I'm a teenager trapped in an old body.
Betty White
Image
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!
Betty White
Image
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.
Betty White
Image
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.
Betty White
Image
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
Image
I have the backbone of an eel.
Betty White