Dolly Parton Quotes

“I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.”

“I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.”

“If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.”

“You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.”

“Money ain't everything.”

“You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.”

“I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.”

“I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.”

“A lot of people think I'm a comedian.”

“There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.”

“I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.”

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

“If people think I'm a dumb blonde, because of the way I look, then they're dumber than they think I am. If people think I'm not very deep because of my wigs and outfits, then they're not very deep.”

“Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.”

“I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.”

“I count my blessings far more than I count my money.”

“I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.”

“I write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.”

“Many of my friends are gay, male and female. I don't judge people. I don't care what people do in their bedrooms and people shouldn't care what I do in mine.”

“Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.”

“I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.”

“I don't know that I'm beautiful or glamorous. I'm a pretty artificial looking person. I sure am flattered when people think I'm beautiful, but I think I'm leaning towards more cartoonish than beautiful. But I'm comfortable with who I am. And since I wasn't born as a natural beauty, I just make the most of what I've got.”

“I haven't stopped working since I was 10.”

“All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.”

“'Jolene' has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.”