Betty White Quotes

Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.

God knows when I'm going to retire. I think I'm going to be bored.

'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

Retire? Never! We are far too busy!

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

I need to retire from retirement.

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

I'm not retiring.

I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.

I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.

People say 'Are you going to retire?' To me, that sort of equates with lying down and dying. When you're doing something you love to do, why would you stop?

All my friends were retiring, and it got to the point where I was like, 'Hey, how come I'm not retiring?'

I cannot imagine not working. I don't understand the word 'retirement.'

I never think about retiring - because you retire, you die.

Retirement has never, ever crossed my mind. And I honestly can't imagine when or why it would. If you're doing the thing you love, why on earth would you want to stop doing it?

The decision to retire was very easy. The timing had come to the point where it was very clear that my time was up.

I retired when I was 40. I started when I was 19. I never wanted to be a guy who was a shell of his former self and have people say, 'He's not as good as he used to be.'