Dolly Parton Quotes

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day.

I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.

I wake up with new dreams every day...more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me.

'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.

With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up.

I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha.

Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a song hits me, I'll pick some sort of melody or rhythm out on it, and kind of enhance the song.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they've been very loyal and kind to me.

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.

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

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’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.

If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.

I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.

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.

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.

Is forever longer than always?

Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine.

Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

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

Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.

I love Velveeta cheese.

I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then.

I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.

the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think 'I can't spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'

I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.

Home is anywhere I hang my hair

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

I have a good attitude. And I was born with a happy heart. I'm always looking for things to be better.

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.