Dolly Parton Quotes

I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now it's my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do better...we must!

I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.

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

When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all.

Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.

When I talk to a man, I can always tell what he's thinking by where he is looking. If he is looking at my eyes, he is looking for intelligence. If he is looking at my mouth, he is looking for wisdom. But if he is looking anywhere else except my chest he's looking for another man.

I love bald men. Just because you've lost your fuzz don't mean you ain't a peach.

I don't keep up with a lot of trends. I've never been a fashion horse. I'm so busy writing my songs, trying to maintain my business, and all the new things that come along. I stay working all the time.

My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

I usually eat breakfast twice. I'm usually up at 3 a.m. - do my spiritual work, my affirmations, a little bit of songwriting, get my daily work in order, and by that time I've worked up a bigger appetite.

I've never been a feminist.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

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

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?'

Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle blooms. It's a feeling of freedom, so close to God and nature.

We get along real well actually [with my husband Karl Tomas Din]. We give each other space and he's not in the business and he doesn't want to be. I'm interested in his world, he's interested in mine, but we have our own things that we do together.

My life has been very full.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.

My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.

I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

In the country field, we’re brought up in spiritual homes, we’re taught to “judge not lest you be judged,” and it’s always been a mystery to me how people jump all over things just to criticize, condemn and judge other people when that is so un-Christian – and they claim to be good Christians! We’re supposed to love one another. We’re supposed to accept and love one another. Whether we do or not, that’s a different story. But that’s what we’re supposed to do.

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

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

I always wanted to be loved.

Goodbye- please don't cry/we both know that I'm not what you need. But I will always love you.

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.

I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.

People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with.

A lot of people think I'm a comedian.

If I see something sagging, dragging and bagging, I’ll get it nip, tucked, sucked or plucked.

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

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

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.