Dolly Parton Quotes
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My husband says I look like a Q-tip.
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I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.
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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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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.
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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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With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up.
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You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.
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People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.
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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.
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People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.
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Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.
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Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.
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I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.
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I can't do nothing just a little.
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Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
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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.
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If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.
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Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
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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 figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.
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You can't really make people be any different than what they are.
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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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I may look fake but I'm real where it counts.
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the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball