Quotes by Dolly Parton

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
– Dolly Parton
I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.
– Dolly Parton
I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
– Dolly Parton
I modelled my looks on the town tramp.
– Dolly Parton
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.
– Dolly Parton
I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
– Dolly Parton
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.
– Dolly Parton
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
– Dolly Parton
Leave something good in every day.
– Dolly Parton
My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.
– Dolly Parton
My husband said 'show me your boobs' and I had to pull up my skirt... so it was time to get them done!
– Dolly Parton
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
– Dolly Parton
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.
– Dolly Parton
Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.
– Dolly Parton
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
– Dolly Parton
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
– Dolly Parton
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
– Dolly Parton
When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
– Dolly Parton
Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!
– Dolly Parton
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
– Dolly Parton
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.
– Dolly Parton
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.
– Dolly Parton
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.
– Dolly Parton
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
– Dolly Parton
It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.
– Dolly Parton
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.
– Dolly Parton
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.
– Dolly Parton
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.
– Dolly Parton
I was always a junk food person, still am.
– 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.
– Dolly Parton
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.
– Dolly Parton
I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.
– Dolly Parton
I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
– Dolly Parton
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.
– Dolly Parton
I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
– Dolly Parton
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.
– Dolly Parton
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.
– Dolly Parton