Happy Birthday Betty White!

So I’m the last survivor and it’s so ironic, cause I was the oldest of the four of us. Isn’t that silly?

Nun bin ich also die letzte Überlebende und das ist so eine Ironie, denn ich war die Älteste von uns Vieren. Ist das nicht sonderbar?

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!

Ich habe es nie bereut, dass ich keine Kinder bekommen habe. Ich bin extrem ehrgeizig. Wäre ich Mutter geworden, hätte meine Karriere ausgesetzt. Das hätte mich wahnsinnig gemacht.

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.

Jedes Mal, wenn ich eine Reihe Autos vor einer Ampel sah, musste ich den Reflex unterdrücken, einen Kommentar darüber abzugeben.

A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.

Dies ist die dritte letzte Sendung von Password. Keine Sorge, wir sind gleich nach der Werbung wieder da.

I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

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

If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a big spay-and-neuter supporter. Don't have babies if you're not going to take care of those babies. We don't need more. We just need to take care of the ones we have. Take responsibility and breathe kindness.

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 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.

I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!

I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.

A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are. I learned at my mother's knee it's better to appreciate what's happening... I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes.

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!

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

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

I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.