Top 100 Dolly Quotes
#1. I love Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Adele.
Casey Wilson
#2. I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep.
Jeremy Hardy
#3. Dolly Parton's done 'Stairway to Heaven.' Anything's possible.
Robert Plant
#4. Dolly was the exclamation point in my life. She made me feel things: adoration, anger, frustration. She was always in love and it made her glow.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#5. The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time.
Michel Gondry
#6. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen the original 'Steel Magnolias' with Dolly Parton and Sally Field and Julia Roberts.
Matthew Moy
#7. Daemon parked as far away as he could, obviously more afraid of getting dings in Dolly's side then us being eaten by Bigfoot.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#8. I need to have small morsels of sweets. If I have a day with the fam with a big family dinner, then I'll indulge ... but then the next day or two I'll really be strict. I learned that from Dolly Parton, by the way!
Kimberly Schlapman
#9. I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby.
Henny Youngman
#10. With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be a great career move, but all these things - singing with the Funk Brothers and the Dead, singing a Dolly Parton song - is great. I'm welcome to all these different worlds, and that's been wonderful.
Joan Osborne
#11. I feel blessed that I still have the little Dolly in my heart, I'm still the same girl that wants to squeeze every little drop out of life that I can.
Dolly Parton
#12. In my office, I have framed album covers by Dottie West, Connie Smith, Tammy, Dolly, Loretta and Jessi Colter.
Lee Ann Womack
#13. Dolly Parton, who said to her doctor, Are you sure it's a chest cold? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#14. You might be a redneck if you're moved to tears every time you hear Dolly Parton singing I Will Always Love You.
Jeff Foxworthy
#15. I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
Valerie June
#16. Find out who you are and do it on purpose. - Dolly Parton
Julie Murphy
#17. Okay, Dolly Brooke killed her because she was going to marry a quote nigger unquote, and how do we prove it?'
He frowned. 'I have told you not to use that word in my hearing.'
'I was merely quoting. It isn't - '
'Shut up. I mean the word 'unquote' and you know it.
Rex Stout
#18. You sounded like Dolly parton on helium."
(After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)
Simon Cowell
#19. I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.
Barbara Windsor
#21. I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.
Johnny Gimble
#22. Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!
Kevyn Aucoin
#23. Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
Kacey Musgraves
#24. I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.
Dolly Parton
#25. You're wearing a lace thong?" Dolly clapped her hands. "That's absolutely perfect for romance.
Peggy Webb
#26. I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais! And there were times when I knew how you felt, and it was hell to know it, my little one. Lolita girl, brave Dolly Schiller.
Vladimir Nabokov
#28. Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!
Queen Latifah
#29. I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
Landon Donovan
#30. If Rihanna stripped it all down morally rather than with her clothes, perhaps we'd get closer to Nina Simone. She's talented, but all we want is to sing the truth. If Britney Spears was to sing closer to her heart, she might have been the new Bobby Gentry or Dolly Parton.
Lou Doillon
#31. Some players would complain if they had to play on Dolly Parton's bedspread.
Jimmy Demaret
#32. It wasn't just the look of Dolly that drew us in. It was the attitude that came with knowing how ridiculous people thought she looked, but never changing a thing because she felt good about herself. To us, she is...invincible.
Julie Murphy
#33. Dolly is a legend. Jessica is so beautiful. I take it as a big compliment when people put me beside them. About being compared to Dolly Parton & Jessica Simpson on the Idol red carpet.
Kellie Pickler
#34. I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.
Dolly Parton
#35. I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.
Dolly Parton
#36. I'm into everything. My iPod is very eclectic - if you kept it on shuffle, you'd be amazed. For example, I was forced to grow up on Dolly Parton. My mum was obsessed by her. She bought all this memorabilia for the front room. It's ridiculous.
Tinie Tempah
#37. I stalked over to the car and climbed in, slamming the door behind me.
"Hey." He frowned from outside the car. "Don't take your anger out on Dolly."
"You named your car Dolly?"
"What's wrong with that?"
I rolled my eyes.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#38. the DOLLY Project (Digital OnLine Life and You) - it's a searchable repository of every geotagged tweet since December 2011,
Christian Rudder
#39. I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.
Jamie Lynn Spears
#40. The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me out of the Smokey Mountains.
Dolly Parton
#41. I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor.
Henry Rollins
#42. A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.
Dean Koontz
#43. Also there's this thing that happens to me sometimes, and it'll usually be me watching a video of Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers singing "Islands in the Stream" and I wonder if I'm crying because I have majorly unaddressed psychological reasons or if that song is really that beautiful.
Molly McAleer
#44. A minute to Dolly's like a lifetime to everybody else.
Dolly Parton
#45. Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?
Bob Hope
#46. The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I remember watching that video and forgetting it was from a woman's point of view, and forgetting it was a country song, and forgetting it was originally by Dolly Parton.
Samuel Larsen
#47. I remember people would talk about Country Music like it was this sexist, lame thing. Well, no, because Dolly Parton is writing songs and playing her guitar and producing. She's doing it all and she's got hits on the radio.
Neko Case
#48. The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.
Vladimir Nabokov
#49. Dolly held the letter tightly and, with a final nod of resolution, started towards her new life, no idea what the future might bring, but determined, suddenly, to meet it.
Kate Morton
#50. The Dolly's around here can't be seen to coddle a snitch's family
that's the always been our way. We're old blood, us people, and our ways was set firm long before hot shot baby Jesus ever even burped milk'n sh*& yellow.
Daniel Woodrell
#51. Then we stay." Nodding her head at the statue, Ginger smiled. "Dolly said once that if you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain." "How fucking appropriate.
Tessa Bailey
#52. Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.
Desi Arnaz
#53. When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
Laura Bell Bundy
#54. I've even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!
Heidi Montag
#55. I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly
Leo Tolstoy
#56. I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.
Reba McEntire
#57. Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.
Barbara Mandrell
#58. This is really bad to admit but, you know, when you put your name in Google to see how many credits it's got by your name or something. So you put in 'Dolly Wells' and suddenly it goes 'Dolly Wells Feet' or something.
Dolly Wells
#59. We named her Dorothy Ann. Dolly, for short. I kissed her warily, fearful of the pain of loving her, love her, though love her I did; fearful lest she hurt me by dying.
Nancy E. Turner
#60. Donald Trump's hairpiece has reportedly narrowed its list of running partners down to Don King, Kramer, William Shatner, Dolly Parton and Phil Spector, and has no worries about being upstaged.
Michael R. Burch
#61. If I ever met Dolly Parton for sure, I would just not be able to say anything. I love her.
Joanna Newsom
#62. I don't want to stay here without you,' said Dolly. 'This place is you. You've made it. It is soaked in you. I should feel haunted here without you. Why, I should feel lost.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#63. I totally think there was a country hair phase. If you look at all the mullets, and Dolly Parton, and Reba's hair, Tim McGraw's hair, Blake Shelton's hair, they definitely had their moments.
Julianne Hough
#64. She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details,
Leo Tolstoy
#65. Oh, there is nobody but the rector, mamma, and he knows we girls are not such fools as we are made to look. If Paul Markham were to marry that sort of person, I should laugh. It would be our revenge - Dolly's and mine - whom he never would condescend to look at. It would be nuts to me." "Did
Mrs. Oliphant
#66. I'm used to doing a lot of dolly tracks.
Kurt Voss
#67. My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon ... We packed in everything.
Clare Bowen
#68. All's over, and there's nothing more," said Dolly. "And the worst of it all is, you see, that I can't cast him off: there are the children, I am tied. And I can't live with him! It's torture to see him.
Leo Tolstoy
#69. Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn.
Bruce Springsteen
#70. You die when you can't be real, Dolly thought. When you can't see who you are and when you cannot see what it.
Timothy Findley
#71. I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.
Eden Robinson
#72. My girl crush is Dolly Parton. I've never met her, but I keep wanting to run into her in a grocery story or something!
Kimberly Schlapman
#73. Something inside Dolly curled up and died. Things could not have been worse. Except that suddenly they were.
Kate Morton
#74. My dream duet would be with Dolly Parton!
Elle King
#75. As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music ... I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers.
Boudleaux Bryant
#76. I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
Loretta Lynn
#77. My mommy told me
If I was goody
That she would buy me
A rubber dolly
My sister told her
I kissed a soldier
Now she won't buy me
That rubber dolly
Now I am dead
And in my grave
And there beside me
A rubber dolly
Tracy Chevalier
#78. Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
Queen Latifah
#79. Like the majority of irreproachably virtuous women, wearying often of the monotony of a virtuous life, Dolly from a distance excused illicit love, and even envied it a little.
Leo Tolstoy
#80. I went for a more classical approach to filmmaking with lots of dolly, track and cranes, and slightly slower, more choreographed fight moves, so you get more fight moves in one take.
Paul W. S. Anderson
#81. I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.
Dolly Parton
#82. The plan is to marry a doctor, It's either that or become a trolley-dolly and hit on a pilot.
Ken McClure
#83. I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too.
Christian Kane
#84. I leaned across the table towards the crumb-thrower. "Do that again," I said, loud enough to be heard over the opera singer, Dolly, my mother, and the smell of the breadsticks, "and I will sell your firstborn child to the devil.
Maggie Stiefvater
#85. I'm more into the old-school country myself, like Dolly Parton, and I guess it wouldn't be typical, but I really love Linda Ronstadt.
Sara Rue
#86. My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'
Nathan Lane
#87. His colleague Richard Feynman wanted to call these new basic particles partons16, as in Dolly, but was over-ruled. Instead they became known as quarks.
Bill Bryson
#88. Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.
Reese Witherspoon
#89. If you love peanut butter pie, you are either Dolly Parton or someone who loves her.
Kate Lebo
#90. When I first got to Nashville, somebody said that [Kris Kristofferson and I] were the only two people who could describe Dolly Parton without using their hands.
Tom T. Hall
#91. Dolly Parton ... I love being around that woman! I worked really hard to keep up with her.
Dom DeLuise
#92. Finally, thank you, Dolly Parton. Just because.
Amy Poehler
#93. Amitav Ghosh's multigenerational saga The Glass Palace, set in colonial Burma, India, and Malaya, tells the story of Rajkumar, once a poor Indian boy, who becomes a wealthy teak trader in Burma, and lovely Dolly, former child-maid to the queen and second princess of Burma.
Nancy Pearl
#94. I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed.
Lexa Doig
#95. Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.
Jo Brand
#96. Lee Iacocca, who said to Dolly Parton, Why do you need an airbag? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#97. When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.
Louis Armstrong
#98. Straight away he raced, with Dolly, panting and frothing, one leap behind; nor could she gain on him, so great was his terror, nor could he leave her, so great was her madness.
Jack London
#99. My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
Kat Dennings
#100. The bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice [has] the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde.
David Fricke
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