Dolly Parton Quotes

Dolly Parton shares warm, funny thoughts about love, self-acceptance and finding joy.

47 quotes

1. I hope life treats you kind And I hope you have all you've dreamed of. And I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love.

2. If I should stay, I would only be in your way. So I'll go, but I know I'll think of you ev'ry step of the way. And I will always love you. I will always love you.

3. Do I lift weights? Sure. Every time I stand up.

4. The way I see it, If you want the rainbow sometimes you gotta put up with the rain

5. How long does it take to do my hair? I don't know - I'm never there!

6. I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

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

8. I look just like the girls next door: if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

9. I patterned myself after this woman that was the town tramp back home. She had blond hair and high heels and red fingernails and lips, and to me she was like what movie stars were to other kids. We'd see her, and I'd say, 'Oh, look, she's got plastic goldfish in her heels!' and my mama would say, 'She ain't nothin' but trash, nothin' but trash,' and I thought, 'Ooh, that's what I'm gonna be when I grow up - trash!'

10. 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.

11. If I hadn't had them, I would have had some made.

12. I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

13. 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.

14. Lots of women buy just as many wigs and makeup things as I do: They just don't wear them all at the same time.

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

16. 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.

17. Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

18. Storms make trees take deeper roots.

19. The night of our honeymoon my husband took one look and said, 'Is that all for me?'.

20. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta be willing to put up with the rain.

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

22. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

23. Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!

24. You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

25. (When asked on 'Late Night with David Letterman' whether Dollywood (her theme park) has rides, similar to Disneyland's Space Mountain, she gestured to her bosom and said) Space Mountain? I've got Twin Peaks!

26. It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

27. If you don't like the road youre walking, start paving another one.

28. If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

29. People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.

30. People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I dont know, Im never there.

31. A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.

32. I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

33. 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.

34. I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.

35. Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

36. You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else.

37. I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now it's my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do better...we must!

38. I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'

39. I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.

40. There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks].

41. We're not all perfect. People always say to me: "Oh you seem happy all the time." But I'm not happy all the time. I'm a human being. I'm very sensitive. I hurt like anybody else. But I do try my best to have a good attitude and I set about tryin' to take care of myself knowing I'm not going to be exactly right, so I just try to see what I can do to improve every single day.

42. I wake up with new dreams every day...more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me.

43. I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

44. The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.

45. I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

46. I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

47. I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.