Top 625 Quotes & Sayings by Dolly Parton - Page 3

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

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.

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in 'Supergirl.' I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, 'Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?'

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

Someone once asked me, 'How long does it take to do your hair.' I said, 'I don't know, I'm never there.'

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.

It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.

There are some loony people in this world!

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.

I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.

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.

I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

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.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'

Money ain't everything.

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

Every day I pray about all I do.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

I think that I'm perfect.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I'm in public, at Dollywood. People say, 'How many wigs do you have?' And I say, 'Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.'

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

'Wrecking Ball' is a great song.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when 'Jolene' was a big hit.

I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

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.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

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

Sevier County is a great area.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

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.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

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.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just keeps comin' back, popping up its head in one way or another.

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

My life has been very full.

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.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

My grandpa was a preacher.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.

Life is a song to me.

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.