Dolly Parton Quotes

“I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.”

“I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.”

“I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.”

“I'm like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I'll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out!”

“I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside.”

“I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.”

“I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.”

“It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know.”

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

“Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park.”

“All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.”

“I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it's still a good barn.”

“I always wanted to be loved.”

“My fat never made me less money.”

“I don't judge. I'm not God. We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.”

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

“It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.”

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

“Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.”

“I wake up with new dreams every day. So the more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me. And the older I get, the earlier I get up. The second my feet hit the floor, I'm awake. I'm like hurry, hurry. I just love life. And I feel like we ain't got but a certain amount of time anyway. I want to make the most of all of it.”

“I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.”

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

“Find out what you are, then do it on purpose”

“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.”

“I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family.”