Dolly Parton Quotes
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I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.
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The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.
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If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?
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I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way.
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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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People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.
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That's the great thing about a sense of humor and a sex drive, you can't wait to share it with everybody else.
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Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
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I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.
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Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.
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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.
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I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside.
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I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.
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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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You can't really make people be any different than what they are.
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I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.
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I just always knew I was going to be a star. I was always going to be rich so I could buy things for Mommy and Daddy, so that I could buy them a big house and we could have things.
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Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods. But we are idols and we're all gods, so to speak, and I think that celebrities should acknowledge their responsibility, because we are in a position to help.
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I don't keep up with a lot of trends. I've never been a fashion horse. I'm so busy writing my songs, trying to maintain my business, and all the new things that come along. I stay working all the time.
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I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.
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I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.
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I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it - including the way I look. You can't take my high heels from me, you can't have my long fingernails, you can't take all this hair from me, because it's part of this thing that I've become. I wouldn't want to give any of it up. Do I have to be ugly to be a songwriter? This is the way I am, and it's what I choose to be.
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My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.
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Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.