Quotes By Dolly Parton

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'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

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

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

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I think that I'm perfect.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

I've been very fortunate.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

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

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

My life has been very full.

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