Dolly Parton Quotes

I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small and then take them in a little.

There are some loony people in this world!

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most important thing. It's how I express myself, how I express how I see things. When I see people struggling with emotions and feelings and don't know how to put it down, I'm able to do that. It's really like a therapy, and it's like a buddy and a friend. It's a way out of a lot of things.

I couldn't have children, I tried to for years. I've never been pregnant in my life. When I was a girl and fooling around I was scared to death I'd get pregnant, and then when I got married and wanted to have children I couldn't have any. But I don't miss it. I did for awhile, but I realize that I am everybody's mother.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.

I'm very upfront and very honest. I don't let a bunch of stuff fester and boil over.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

I stay close to my roots and my family. I never want to forget any part of it. I'm still just a hillbilly at heart, thus a Backwoods Barbie.

A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.

'9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different.

I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought "Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again." I've got thousands of songs.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

I'll just wait right here for you cause I know your new love won't last. I wound easy, but I heal fast.

lots of women buy just as many wigs and makeup things as I do ... They just don't wear them all at the same time.

I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

There's no such thing as free love. Have you seen the price of Viagra?

I love the accomplishments and the awards that I've received through the years. But I've always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I've always counted my blessings before I've counted my money. I'm glad that new dreams come to me everyday.

People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity.

I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

I'm just a person; I like to experience whatever the feeling is and whatever I'm going through.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.