Quotes By Dolly Parton

Every day I pray about all I do.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I'll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

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

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 get a kick out of my stupidity.

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

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.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

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

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

I'm a workin' girl.

My grandpa was a preacher.

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'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.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

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

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

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

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.