Dolly Parton Quotes
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I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.
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I'm like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I'll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out!
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I count my blessings far more than I count my money.
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Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.
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If I see something sagging, dragging and bagging, I’ll get it nip, tucked, sucked or plucked.
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I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.
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I hope you're never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you're haunted by me. Yes, I'm possessive and jealous, at least I speak honestly.
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'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.
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People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.
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People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'
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You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.
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God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.
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A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.
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[On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible.
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Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
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I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.
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Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul.
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After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
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If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.
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I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
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I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.
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I have a good attitude. And I was born with a happy heart. I'm always looking for things to be better.
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I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.
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I love the accomplishments and the awards that I've received through the years. But I've always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I've always counted my blessings before I've counted my money. I'm glad that new dreams come to me everyday.