Dolly Parton Quotes

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I’m in public, at Dollywood. People say, ‚How many wigs do you have?‘ And I say, ‚Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.‘

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic… The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I don’t have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

My fat never made me less money.

‚Wrecking Ball‘ is a great song.

That little Miley Cyrus… she’s like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she’s Hannah Montana, but what people don’t realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she’s 40 years old!

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

I always loved that old song ‚Banks of the Ohio‘ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

I love being busy.

I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

People are always asking me in interviews, ‚What do you think of foreign affairs?‘ I just say, ‚I’ve had a few.‘

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

I’ve been very fortunate.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

There are some loony people in this world!

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

I don’t like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I’m kind of a hands-on type of person.

It’s always great to perform at home in the good ol‘ U.S.A.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.