Top 625 Quotes & Sayings by Dolly Parton - Page 4

I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

A lot of people think I'm a comedian.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

I've been very fortunate.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn't care about any of it.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.

No, I can't do rap music!

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.

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.

Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

I'm a workin' girl.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they've been very loyal and kind to me.

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day.

I always think of myself as a working girl.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

I'm a showgirl, as you can tell. I'm ever ready.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I've had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

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.

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.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.

I will never retire unless I have to.

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

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by other women, period.

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

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.

George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.

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.

I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.