Quotes By Dolly Parton

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

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.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains.

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

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

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

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

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.

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

I'm a workin' girl.

My grandpa was a preacher.

I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

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.

I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

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 hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

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.

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.

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

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.