Dolly Parton Quotes

Is forever longer than always?

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen

I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.

I'll be wearing my high heels, even if I'm up to my knees in mud

Find out what you are, then do it on purpose

People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'

Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine.

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

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.

Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.

I will never retire unless I have to.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

There are some loony people in this world!

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

When I get down, I don't waller around for long.

I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.

Everything is nothing when you got no one.

Everybody has a purpose.

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

I wake up with new dreams every day...more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

When I got somethin' to say, I'll say it.

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

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.

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

I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

...everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

Less is not more. More is more.

I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

If there's a heaven, I hope to hell I go!

You can't just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give 'em wings, arms, legs...whatever it takes to make your dreams come true.

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

Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.

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

I always think of myself as a working girl.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

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

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.