Dolly Parton Quotes

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I’m so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

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.

Every day I pray about all I do.

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

I just don’t have time to get old!

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

I’ve copyrighted 3,000 songs.

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?‘

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

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

I do write a lot of children’s songs, and I’m going to do a children’s television show, which also means I’ll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

I will never retire unless I have to.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

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

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

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

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

I know it’s corny – but I love ‚Jingle Bells!‘

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

No, I can’t do rap music!

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

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

People like bluegrass. It’s had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

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

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

I’m very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

Some guys look better as they get older.

I always think of myself as a working girl.

I have suffered most of the things I write about – or my friends have.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

I don’t have anything to say about other people’s art and their work.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

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

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

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

George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.

My favorite movies of all times is ‚Doctor Zhivago,‘ and I love ‚Gone With the Wind.‘ I’d love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

I’ll be like Bob Hope, touring when I’m 100.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

Life is a song to me.

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

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

I’ve never been a feminist.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

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.

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.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

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.