Betty White plans on staying around

Betty White has been around forever… and she’s been at the top of her game in every phase of her career.

Here she talks about how things have changed from when she started in the business.

From Movieline:
You career is just so expansive, and still going strong.
You can’t get rid of me, is what you mean.

Well, we don’t want to. How have you seen things change in Hollywood through the years?
When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and “Oh my gosh — look what it’s doing!” But as the years went on, the audience has become very jaded. They’ve heard every joke, they’ve seen every story line, they know where you’re going before you even start to get there. And that’s a hard audience to keep interested, and that’s why I think so much of the shows now try to throw language, or situations, or sex — anything to get the audience’s attention. I think it’s hard to go back and find that innocence. You can’t. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. But also our morals have changed to the point where almost anything goes. The bar lowers every year, so I think it’s the audience that’s dictating where the shows go.

Lear emphasized that it all comes down to character. Regardless of what the subject matter was, you had to care about the people on the screen.
You had to care. That’s the thing. And now so often in so many of the shows, you look at it, but you’re not concentrating. You used to watch something and be so focused. Now it’s running in the background, or they’ve got it on iPod, or they’re Twittering each other.

You know what Twitter is?
Oh, yes. And they’re doing all that stuff, and it’s a whole new ballgame.

But you’re still playing!
That’s the surprise — they haven’t caught on. I just signed for another Disney movie that starts at the end of July.

What is it?
It’s with Sigourney Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis, and it’s called You Again. It’s a cute script. I fell in love with this script — The Proposal — because, again, you cared about the two people getting back together again. And it was a great role for me, at this age, to get a part like that. And she wasn’t a mean granny. I’ve played mean grannies, bawdy grannies, and silly, crazy grannies. But she was just a regular human being who was just trying to help these kids get together. It was fun.