Top 100 Parton Quotes
#1. When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
Dolly Parton
#2. I love Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Adele.
Casey Wilson
#3. I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair
Dolly Parton
#4. Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.
Dolly Parton
#5. I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.
Dolly Parton
#6. My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.
Dolly Parton
#7. 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
#8. Dolly Parton's done 'Stairway to Heaven.' Anything's possible.
Robert Plant
#9. A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?
Dolly Parton
#10. I write for myself things that I've gone through.
Dolly Parton
#12. I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.
Dolly Parton
#13. Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
Dolly Parton
#14. Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to.
Dolly Parton
#15. 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
#16. Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.
Dolly Parton
#17. I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.
Dolly Parton
#18. I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!
Dolly Parton
#20. Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.
Dolly Parton
#21. 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
#22. Someone once asked me, 'How long does it take to do your hair.' I said, 'I don't know, I'm never there.'
Dolly Parton
#24. 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
#25. Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.
Dolly Parton
#26. I try not to go around looking like a hag.
Dolly Parton
#27. I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.
Dolly Parton
#28. Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams ... all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times ... they're the songs that last through time.
Dolly Parton
#30. 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.
Dolly Parton
#31. Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.
Dolly Parton
#32. 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.
Dolly Parton
#33. I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.
Dolly Parton
#34. I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby.
Henny Youngman
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.
Dolly Parton
#39. Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.
Dolly Parton
#40. I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.
Dolly Parton
#41. Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?
Dolly Parton
#42. I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.
Dolly Parton
#43. God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.
Dolly Parton
#44. Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.
Dolly Parton
#45. 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
#46. Dolly Parton, who said to her doctor, Are you sure it's a chest cold? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#47. Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.
Dolly Parton
#48. 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
#49. When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that meant. I didn't know.
Dolly Parton
#50. My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.
Dolly Parton
#51. 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.
Dolly Parton
#52. 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
#54. 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
#55. Find out who you are and do it on purpose. - Dolly Parton
Julie Murphy
#56. Find out what you are, then do it on purpose
Dolly Parton
#57. My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart.
Dolly Parton
#58. I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.
Dolly Parton
#60. 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.
Dolly Parton
#61. A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares ... if you don't really work them.
Dolly Parton
#62. 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
#63. First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.
Dolly Parton
#65. I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.
Dolly Parton
#66. 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
#67. I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.
Dolly Parton
#68. I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.
Dolly Parton
#69. 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
#70. I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.
Dolly Parton
#71. Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.
Dolly Parton
#72. Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.
Dolly Parton
#73. I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.
Dolly Parton
#74. 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
#75. No one is ever successful at everything that they do.
Dolly Parton
#76. Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
Dolly Parton
#77. 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
#78. I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family.
Dolly Parton
#79. You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
Dolly Parton
#80. 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
#81. Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push-up bras.
Dolly Parton
#82. They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.
Dolly Parton
#83. 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
#84. Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.
Dolly Parton
#85. Some of my dreams are so big they would scare you.
Dolly Parton
#86. I always think of myself as a working girl.
Dolly Parton
#87. The doc swore she came out screamin' in the key of E.
Dolly Parton
#88. 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
#89. E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.
James Parton
#90. 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
#91. Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.
Dolly Parton
#92. I love the accomplishments and the awards that I've received through the years. But I've always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I've always counted my blessings before I've counted my money. I'm glad that new dreams come to me everyday.
Dolly Parton
#93. To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.
James Parton
#94. I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.
Dolly Parton
#95. I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.
Dolly Parton
#96. I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
Dolly Parton
#97. You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
Dolly Parton
#98. I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.
Dolly Parton
#99. Everything is nothing when you got no one.
Dolly Parton
#100. I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?
Dolly Parton
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