Quotes By Dolly Parton

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

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

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

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.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

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'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.

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

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

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

I think that I'm perfect.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I've been very fortunate.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

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

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

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

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.

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 trying to be fashionable. Never was!

I can't do nothing just a little.

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.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

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

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

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.

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