Dolly Parton Quotes

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

When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording.

I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change.

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.

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

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

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

I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?

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

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

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

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

Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

It's always great to perform at home in the good ol' U.S.A.

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

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

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

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've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

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.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

Truth is, I wouldn't know a gigabyte from a snakebite.

Money ain't everything.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

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.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

No, I can't do rap music...

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

Sevier County is a great area.

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

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

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

I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

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

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

One is only poor, only if they choose to be.

That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.