Dolly Parton Quotes
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I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).
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I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.
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I've struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I've had to go against all kinds of people through the years just to be myself. I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love. I don't think we should be judgmental. Lord, I've got enough problems of my own to pass judgment on somebody else.
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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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If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.
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They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.
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You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em.
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Storms make trees take deeper roots.
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Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.
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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 believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?
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If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.
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I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.
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You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!
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I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?'
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Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.
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I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.
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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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I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.
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I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.
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I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.
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The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
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Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.
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I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair