Dolly Parton Quotes
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I write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.
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I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.
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My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
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A lot of people think I'm a comedian.
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My grandpa was a preacher.
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So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.
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I'll be wearing my high heels, even if I'm up to my knees in mud
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Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.
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I may look fake but I'm real where it counts.
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We can't all be stars; we can't all be leaders. We are all God's creatures, living life, and we have that God light in us and we're supposed to let it shine. And not everybody wants to be like me and stick their neck out to get up on stage and perform. There are those like me, but there are also those that are of a shyer nature. And they're smarter than most of us that are out there showing our asses.
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I have two favorite colors - white and yellow. White makes me feel light and airy. Yellow makes me happy.
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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 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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I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.
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You're no Elvis Presley, I'm no Marilyn Monroe, but I do think you're sexy, just thought I'd tell you so.
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I want to be like one of those little fainting goats that get scared and then just fall over. I want to go and go and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.
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I look like a woman, but I think like a man.
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Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.
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My husband says I look like a Q-tip.
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I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.
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I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
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When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.
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People get a kick out of my stupidity.
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If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.