Dolly Parton Quotes

“I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.”

“I will never retire unless I have to.”

“There are some loony people in this world!”

“A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.”

“I love Velveeta cheese.”

“Everything is nothing when you got no one.”

“Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.”

“No one is ever successful at everything that they do.”

“I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.”

“When I talk to a man, I can always tell what he's thinking by where he is looking. If he is looking at my eyes, he is looking for intelligence. If he is looking at my mouth, he is looking for wisdom. But if he is looking anywhere else except my chest he's looking for another man.”

“Being a star just means that you just find your own special place and that you shine where you are. To me that's what being a star means.”

“No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you're always threatened by certain... You're always threatened by other women, period.”

“Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.”

“If we all climb together, we could climb the highest hill.”

“I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.”

“As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!”

“I can't do nothing just a little.”

“They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.”

“It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.”

“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.”

“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.”

“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.”

“If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.”

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

“I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.”