Though Sue Ann Nivens could certainly get on our nerves, Betty White played the character with such an unabashed confidence that we couldn’t help but love her at the same time.

“Sue Ann was such a bag of wind, all talk and no fight,” said White of her character on The Mary Tyler Moore Show during an interview with The Buffalo News. “She was the most fun I’d ever had. Until Rose.”

Many actors have likened choosing a favorite character to a parent choosing a favorite child. White, however, had no problem admitting that she enjoyed her character on The Golden Girls.

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“I enjoy Rose more,” said the actor. “With Sue Ann, you barged in, bump, bump, did your joke, and left. You never really had a chance to build a character with a second or third dimension. Rose gets her back up, and you see another side of her entirely.”

While her Golden Girls character was more than a little clueless, White enjoyed the change of pace that the series offered her.

“She [Rose] takes everything at its literal meaning,” White said during an interview with the Associated Press. “She’s such a complete contrast to Sue Ann.”

“She doesn’t follow the same path as the others, who are terribly sophisticated. They sit still for her long stories, and she’s never aware they’re making fun of her.”

Moreover, White saw herself in Rose Nylund. “Now I see more Rose in Betty than I had any idea,” said the actor. “I always thought Betty was closer to Sue Ann. But there’s a basic morality that I find close to home, and I probably tell stories just as long and boring as Rose.”