Quotes By Dolly Parton

I think that I'm perfect.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

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

I've been very fortunate.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

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.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

I can't do nothing just a little.

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

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.

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.

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.

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

A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

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.

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

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.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

My life has been very full.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

I'm just a simple country girl.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.