Dolly Parton Quotes
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For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.
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My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.
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I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.
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I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.
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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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Some people say that less is more. But I think more is more.
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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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My husband said 'show me your boobs' and I had to pull up my skirt... so it was time to get them done!
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I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.
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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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Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?
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No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by
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You can't just will your dreams to come true. You have to work hard. You have to give 'em wings, arms, legs...whatever it takes to make your dreams come true.
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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 prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.
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I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
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I have been asked to pose for Penthouse on my hundredth birthday. Everybody is going to be sorry.
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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 modelled my looks on the town tramp.
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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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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
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Energy begets energy.
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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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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.