Top 625 Quotes & Sayings by Dolly Parton
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Last updated on September 10, 2024.
I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
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.
If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
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.
When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
Energy begets energy.
'9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.
Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.
If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.
I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.
When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
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.
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.
I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.
I love Velveeta cheese.
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
I've never been a feminist.
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.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.
I don't kiss nobody's butt.
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.
I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.
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.
There's nothing like white trash at the White House.
I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.
I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back.
I'll never graduate from collagen.
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.
God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.
God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.
The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'
You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.
It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.
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.
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.
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.
I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.
A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.
Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.
We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.
No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.
People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.'
I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.
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