Dolly Parton Quotes

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

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

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.

People will use you as long as you let them.

Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.

There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks].

[On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips.

I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a direct question I say it shouldn't matter who you are, whether you're black, white, green, gay, male, female. If you can do a job and do it well you should be paid for it, you should be respected for it, and you have to be responsible. I think sometimes people can go too fare trying to make a point. I think they should just make their point and go on about.

I may look fake but I'm real where it counts.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

I know when something ain't right, and I know exactly what I will or won't tolerate.

Well, my smile's pretty hard to miss, considering I'm a gal who likes her lipstick-the redder the better.

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.

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.

Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals.

I just try to be true to myself and look the way that I'm comfortable looking. Because if I'm comfortable with me, then you're going to be comfortable with me as well.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.