Betsy Quotes

For more than thirty years of my life I had smoked with increasing habit. I was finally separated from the addiction by Betsy, who, after carefully studying hypnosis, practiced it, with my full permission and trust, as I was going off to sleep one night. She sat in a chair near the bed and, in a quiet, calm voice, rhythmically repeated what I inwardly knew to be true, the fact that smoking was not good for me; and, as my conscious mind relaxed and no longer cared to offer a negative thought, her words sank into my subconscious; and the following day, to my surprise I had no need or wish to smoke. Nor have I smoked since. Nor have I, as far as I know, replaced it with any other harmful habit.

(on Betsy Drake) Betsy was a delightful comedienne, but I don`t think Hollywood was ever really her milieu. She wanted to help humanity, to help others help themselves.

Acting? It`s a longstanding compulsion I`ve had since I was about five or six years old. I can literally identify the moment it struck me. I went to see a play (If I Were a Princess) in which a babysitter of mine (Betsy True, who later acted on Broadway) was performing. I was completely shell-shocked by the magic of this little community-theater play; it just riveted me.

(When asked what he thought about the John Holmes porn trial) "You know, someone once asked me that and I said the day that Laurence Olivier drops his pants on the screen is the day that I will support adult actors, and then I saw the movie The Betsy (1978)."

The last major storm to come through Florida, before Hurricane Andrew hit in 1992, was Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which went through the Keys.

Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out.

If I had a mentor as far as a tournament director, I`d say it was Betsy Rawls,