Dolly Parton Quotes

Smile, it increases you face value.

Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.

Find out what you are, then do it on purpose

I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound.

To me it's a two-way street. They're good to me, and I'm good to them. It's a natural thing for me to love people, and I think people sense it. ... I am secure with the kind of person I am. I don't feel like I'm better than anyone, but I'm just as good as anyone.

I can't do nothing just a little.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

I'm one of those people that if its something to eat I'm going to eat the whole thing, If I'm going to be in love I'm going to love you all the way and if my heart's broken, it's just shattered all to pieces.

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

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.

You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen

My mistakes are no worse than yours.

I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.

If I have one more facelift I'll have a beard!

I don't know that I'm beautiful or glamorous. I'm a pretty artificial looking person. I sure am flattered when people think I'm beautiful, but I think I'm leaning towards more cartoonish than beautiful. But I'm comfortable with who I am. And since I wasn't born as a natural beauty, I just make the most of what I've got.

I'm in showbiz. I look at my boobs like they're show horses or show dogs. You've got to keep them groomed.

In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week.

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.

I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

Leave something good in every day.

A baby, a real live baby was the craziest thing a fan has sent. Someone left a baby on our front doorstep with a note that they wanted us to raise it. Of course, we contacted the authorities and they took care of the baby.

Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something.

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

Some of my dreams are so big they would scare you.

I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men.

It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.

The bible says, 'All things are possible.' I believe that.

I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.

I do have a natural sense for business, which I think I get from my Dad.

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.

We can't all be stars; we can't all be leaders. We are all God's creatures, living life, and we have that God light in us and we're supposed to let it shine. And not everybody wants to be like me and stick their neck out to get up on stage and perform. There are those like me, but there are also those that are of a shyer nature. And they're smarter than most of us that are out there showing our asses.

I've been very fortunate.