Dolly Parton Quotes
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It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
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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.
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Leave something good in every day.
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It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A.
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When I get down, I don't waller around for long.
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Islands in the streams, that is what we are.
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That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.
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Everything is nothing when you got no one.
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If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?
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I do wear wigs. ... I sometimes make the joke about me standing on a hilltop with my hair blowing in the wind - and me too proud to run after it.
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It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.
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You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.
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I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
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We're not all perfect. People always say to me: "Oh you seem happy all the time." But I'm not happy all the time. I'm a human being. I'm very sensitive. I hurt like anybody else. But I do try my best to have a good attitude and I set about tryin' to take care of myself knowing I'm not going to be exactly right, so I just try to see what I can do to improve every single day.
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I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.
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I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside.
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No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by
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I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.
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You can't really make people be any different than what they are.
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If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.
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When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.
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Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.
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Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.
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I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.