Dolly Parton Quotes
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My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.
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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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I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.
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Years ago when I first started being a big star I had fans that were fanatical. It was when "Jolene" was a big hit.
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Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.
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I am amazed at the response of my being on the show. Everywhere I go, every young person points at me and says "Hi, Aunt Dolly." Or "Are you Aunt Dolly?" I love doing the show and I love Miley and Billy Ray [Cyrus]. I am proud to be her honorary Godmother.
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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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I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
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I was always a junk food person, still am.
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I love Velveeta cheese.
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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'm in showbiz. I look at my boobs like they're show horses or show dogs. You've got to keep them groomed.
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You never know what's going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don't know how you're going to be thought of or seen.
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I think my life actually changed at 40. That's when you realize you can't ride the fence anymore. You either have to get on one side or the other. I think some of my best years were between 40 and 50: I got my priorities straight and life is good to me now. It's only other people who say, "God, she's 50 years old!" as if I'm over the hill. I feel like I just started.
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I never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that. I never wanted to change, I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well.
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Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.
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I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.
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When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all.
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Energy begets energy.
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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 tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.
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I don't know that I'm beautiful or glamorous. I'm a pretty artificial looking person. I sure am flattered when people think I'm beautiful, but I think I'm leaning towards more cartoonish than beautiful. But I'm comfortable with who I am. And since I wasn't born as a natural beauty, I just make the most of what I've got.
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I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.
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My fat never made me less money.