Dolly Parton Quotes

You have to work hard, in order to get anything done.

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

Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.

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

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.

I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!

We're all God's children.

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

I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.

Cheating love is just as real as un-cheating love.

The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me out of the Smokey Mountains.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair

If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.

I count my blessings far more than I count my money.

I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.

Don't judge me by the cover, 'cause I'm a real good book.

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.

I'm short and I have a big appetite. I can't do nothing just a little. It's the same with anything I do. It's very hard for me to love a little, have sex a little, to eat a little. I like to do everything, and I like to do it all the way that I want to do it.

You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.

There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.

Having a big gay following, I get hate mail and threats. Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can't be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be happy.

[On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible.

When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.

If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.

Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods. But we are idols and we're all gods, so to speak, and I think that celebrities should acknowledge their responsibility, because we are in a position to help.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.

If there's something you know and there's something you feel, but you can't quite express it, you will hear it somewhere. And you don't have to worry, because someone will get it sung out.

Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.

I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

I do wear wigs. ... I sometimes make the joke about me standing on a hilltop with my hair blowing in the wind - and me too proud to run after it.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

If people think I'm a dumb blonde, because of the way I look, then they're dumber than they think I am. If people think I'm not very deep because of my wigs and outfits, then they're not very deep.

All these fine Christian-type people that seem to think they know what God wants for all of us, that's certainly more of a sin then anything they would claim about us. To judge people is one of the greatest sins.

You can't really make people be any different than what they are.

It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.

I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

I prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.