Dolly Parton

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

“I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.”

“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.”

“There's no such thing as free love. Have you seen the price of Viagra?”

“I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.”

“What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I'm there with them.”

“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.”

“I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.”

“I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.”

“I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).”

“Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.”

“I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.”

“I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.”

“I'm just a simple country girl.”

“I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em.”

“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'll just wait right here for you cause I know your new love won't last. I wound easy, but I heal fast.”

“Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”

“After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I’ve done that in my past, and I’d do it again.”

“I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!”

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

“My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.”

“When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.”

“My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.”

“My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.”

“I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.”

“I can't do nothing just a little.”

“We get along real well actually [with my husband Karl Tomas Din]. We give each other space and he's not in the business and he doesn't want to be. I'm interested in his world, he's interested in mine, but we have our own things that we do together.”

“I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.”

“I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.”

“Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.”

“So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.”

“Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.”

“I'm a showgirl, as you can tell. I'm ever ready.”

“I'll never graduate from collagen.”

“Leave something good in every day.”

“I stay close to my roots and my family. I never want to forget any part of it. I'm still just a hillbilly at heart, thus a Backwoods Barbie.”

“I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.”

“Dream more, learn more, care more, and be more.”

“My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.”

“I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.”

“Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.”

“Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.”

“I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.”

“I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.”

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

“The world is my stage. I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!”

“I will never retire unless I have to.”

“Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.”

“People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.”