Top 100 Dolly's Quotes

#1. I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #17037
#2. Dolly Parton's done 'Stairway to Heaven.' Anything's possible.

Robert Plant

Dolly's Quotes #19454
#3. If there's a heaven, I hope to hell I go!

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #24735
#4. Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #37594
#5. 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

Dolly's Quotes #75812
#6. 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

Dolly's Quotes #127505
#7. I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #129323
#8. Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #133282
#9. I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #159045
#10. Dolly Parton, who said to her doctor, Are you sure it's a chest cold? Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

Dolly's Quotes #159801
#11. You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #161085
#12. My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #197525
#13. That's the great thing about a sense of humor and a sex drive, you can't wait to share it with everybody else.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #232938
#14. That little Miley Cyrus ... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah Montana, but what people don't realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she's 40 years old!

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #245262
#15. Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #255168
#16. 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

Dolly's Quotes #259822
#17. Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are. To me, that's what being a star means.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #266713
#18. I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed ...

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #275653
#19. They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #282198
#20. I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

Dolly Parton

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#21. You're wearing a lace thong?" Dolly clapped her hands. "That's absolutely perfect for romance.

Peggy Webb

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#22. All these fine Christian-type people that seem to think they know what God wants for all of us, that's certainly more of a sin then anything they would claim about us. To judge people is one of the greatest sins.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #340204
#23. I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought "Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again." I've got thousands of songs.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #340765
#24. People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Dolly Parton

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#25. I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

Dolly Parton

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#26. 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

Dolly's Quotes #366856
#27. When I talk to a man, I can always tell what he's thinking by where he is looking. If he is looking at my eyes, he is looking for intelligence. If he is looking at my mouth, he is looking for wisdom. But if he is looking anywhere else except my chest he's looking for another man.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #377875
#28. I'm short and I have a big appetite. I can't do nothing just a little. It's the same with anything I do. It's very hard for me to love a little, have sex a little, to eat a little. I like to do everything, and I like to do it all the way that I want to do it.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #379850
#29. My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #409631
#30. I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #428106
#31. I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #429047
#32. Some players would complain if they had to play on Dolly Parton's bedspread.

Jimmy Demaret

Dolly's Quotes #432867
#33. I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #452487
#34. If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's..

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #492789
#35. 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

Dolly's Quotes #494684
#36. I enjoy the way I look, but it's a joke.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #505791
#37. It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #522403
#38. They think I'm simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn't I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that's the key: simple.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #551132
#39. 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

Dolly's Quotes #578623
#40. We came up with this idea of a power struggle between two people who really love each other, and 'Doll & Em' took off. Calling it by our own names was the director's idea, but hopefully people will understand that we're playing versions of ourselves.

Dolly Wells

Dolly's Quotes #581295
#41. 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

Dolly's Quotes #584564
#42. the DOLLY Project (Digital OnLine Life and You) - it's a searchable repository of every geotagged tweet since December 2011,

Christian Rudder

Dolly's Quotes #592132
#43. I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #627763
#44. Working nine to five, what way to earn a living.
Barely getting by ... It's all taking and no giving.
They use just your mind and they never give you credit.
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it!

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #660597
#45. 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.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #667451
#46. 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.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #669578
#47. I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #699958
#48. I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #716351
#49. I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #732320
#50. 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

Dolly's Quotes #756540
#51. Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #760292
#52. A minute to Dolly's like a lifetime to everybody else.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #776706
#53. 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

Dolly's Quotes #810522
#54. I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment.. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #811850
#55. 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

Dolly's Quotes #816670
#56. People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #841487
#57. I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.

Dolly Parton

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#58. Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things ...

Dolly Parton

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#59. I don't trust anyone who does their own hair. I don't think it's natural.

Dolly Parton

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#60. All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #876315
#61. My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #877761
#62. 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

Dolly's Quotes #881465
#63. It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #903906
#64. To me it's a two-way street. They're good to me, and I'm good to them. It's a natural thing for me to love people, and I think people sense it ... I am secure with the kind of person I am. I don't feel like I'm better than anyone, but I'm just as good as anyone.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #910815
#65. You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #929833
#66. I'm no angel if that's what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.

Dolly Parton

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#67. They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.

Dolly Parton

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#68. God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

Dolly Parton

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#69. 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

Dolly's Quotes #989957
#70. If there's something you know and there's something you feel, but you can't quite express it, you will hear it somewhere. And you don't have to worry, because someone will get it sung out.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #996600
#71. 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

Dolly's Quotes #1017447
#72. I'm one of those people that if its something to eat I'm going to eat the whole thing, If I'm going to be in love I'm going to love you all the way and if my heart's broken, it's just shattered all to pieces.

Dolly Parton

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#73. I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #1041211
#74. 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.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #1052936
#75. 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

Dolly's Quotes #1061286
#76. I've used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool ... but that's just natural.

Dolly Parton

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#77. 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.

Dolly Parton

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#78. I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

Dolly Parton

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#79. '9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.

Dolly Parton

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#80. There's nothing like white trash at the White House.

Dolly Parton

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#81. There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.

Dolly Parton

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#82. 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

Dolly's Quotes #1136061
#83. 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

Dolly's Quotes #1192218
#84. I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

Dolly Parton

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#85. There's no such thing as free love. Have you seen the price of Viagra?

Dolly Parton

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#86. I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.

Dolly Parton

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#87. Be the alligator girl. Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be. Wear your green cornflakes with pride. Snarl at the crowds, and do your best to make them flinch. Give them a quarter's worth of wonder.

Dolly Parton

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#88. I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

Dolly Parton

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#89. I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

Dolly Parton

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#90. I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Dolly Parton

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#91. I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Dolly Parton

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#92. There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.

Dolly Parton

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#93. People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

Dolly Parton

Dolly's Quotes #1292084
#94. People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with.

Dolly Parton

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#95. I say, 'Yeah, Taylor Swift.' I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she's making all the right moves. She's got a good head on her shoulders. She's surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she's living and standing by that.

Dolly Parton

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#96. I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.

Dolly Parton

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#97. I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.

Dolly Parton

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#98. 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

Dolly's Quotes #1429609
#99. People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'

Dolly Parton

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#100. As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

Dolly Parton

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