Dolly Parton Quotes
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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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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 just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
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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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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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A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.
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Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.
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I'm a showgirl, as you can tell. I'm ever ready.
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It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.
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It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.
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...everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.
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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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People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity.
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I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.
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Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park.
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I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.
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I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
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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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I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.
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I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair
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God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.
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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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We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.
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Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.