Dolly Parton Quotes

It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.

I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.

I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

I feel blessed that I still have the little Dolly in my heart, I'm still the same girl that wants to squeeze every little drop out of life that I can.

I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

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.

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

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.

Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

Some people say that less is more. But I think more is more.

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

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

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

I don't judge. I'm not God. We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.

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.

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

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

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

Don't lose your temper; use it.

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.

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

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

I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

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

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.

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.

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.

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day.

I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.

Smile, it enhances your face value.

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

We're phonies if we're not exactly who we are.

I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.

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

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

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

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha.

I just don't have time to get old!

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.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

We're all God's children.