Dolly Quotes

Challenge yourself to hear their experience without questioning its expression. Avoid being the tone police. ~ Dolly Chugh

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

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God. ~ Dolly Parton

I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone. ~ Dolly Parton

I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent. ~ Dolly Parton

I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite. ~ Dolly Parton

Smile, it enhances your face value. ~ Dolly Parton

Then we stay." Nodding her head at the statue, Ginger smiled. "Dolly said once that if you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain." "How fucking appropriate. ~ Tessa Bailey

Less is not more. More is more. ~ Dolly Parton

I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own. ~ Dolly Parton

There's nothing like white trash at the White House. ~ Dolly Parton

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain! ~ Dolly Parton

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. ~ Dolly Parton

It takes a lot of money to look this cheap. ~ Dolly Parton

[On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible. ~ Dolly Parton

No, I can't do rap music! ~ Dolly Parton

I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts ... ~ Dolly Parton

People say I look so happy - and I say, 'That's the Botox.' ~ Dolly Parton

A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold. ~ Dolly Parton

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. ~ Dolly Parton

I do wear wigs ... I sometimes make the joke about me standing on a hilltop with my hair blowing in the wind - and me too proud to run after it. ~ Dolly Parton

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate. ~ Dolly Parton

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me? ~ Dolly Parton

I'm used to doing a lot of dolly tracks. ~ Kurt Voss

Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans. ~ Dolly Parton

Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face. ~ Dolly Parton

I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep. ~ Jeremy Hardy

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them. ~ Dolly Parton

I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive. ~ Dolly Parton

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area. ~ Dolly Parton

The whole of that day Anna spent at home, that's to say at the Oblonskys', and received no one, though some of her acquaintances had already heard of her arrival, and came to call; the same day. Anna spent the whole morning with Dolly and the children. She merely sent a brief note to her brother to tell him that he must not fail to dine at home. "Come, God is merciful," she wrote. ~ Leo Tolstoy

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

If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad. ~ Dolly Parton

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

That little Miley Cyrus ... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah Montana, but what people don't realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she's 40 years old! ~ Dolly Parton

Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us. ~ Dolly Parton

If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain. ~ Dolly Parton

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100. ~ Dolly Parton

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. ~ Dolly Parton

I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey ... I just couldn't get enough. ~ Dolly Parton

Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle blooms. It's a feeling of freedom, so close to God and nature. ~ Dolly Parton

Get down off the cross, honey;
Somebody needs the wood! ~ Dolly Parton

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

That's the great thing about a sense of humor and a sex drive, you can't wait to share it with everybody else. ~ Dolly Parton

Sevier County is a great area. ~ Dolly Parton

I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I don't try to compete or see what other people are doing. ~ Dolly Parton

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I've had a crush on him since I was a teenager. ~ Dolly Parton

Sometimes, you see folks who have a negative view of dreamers - people who sit around all day on their hindquarters and do absolutely nothing. These folks aren't dreamers - they are just lazy. To me, dreaming is just part of being alive, inspired, and curious about the world. ~ Dolly Parton

I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will. ~ Dolly Parton

I don't kiss nobody's butt. ~ Dolly Parton

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try. ~ Dolly Parton

Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you. ~ Dolly Parton

I've struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I've had to go against all kinds of people through the years just to be myself. I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love. I don't think we should be judgmental. Lord, I've got enough problems of my own to pass judgment on somebody else. ~ Dolly Parton

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. ~ Dolly Parton

That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother. ~ Dolly Parton

I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet. ~ Dolly Parton

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast. ~ Dolly Parton

A real Deadly Dolly," sniggered Mick. And then, "Ouch!" when she whacked him. ~ Aaron D'Este

I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it - including the way I look. You can't take my high heels from me, you can't have my long fingernails, you can't take all this hair from me, because it's part of this thing that I've become. I wouldn't want to give any of it up. Do I have to be ugly to be a songwriter? This is the way I am, and it's what I choose to be. ~ Dolly Parton

All's over, and there's nothing more," said Dolly. "And the worst of it all is, you see, that I can't cast him off: there are the children, I am tied. And I can't live with him! It's torture to see him. ~ Leo Tolstoy

And he would be gone. Whatever he was made of--stardust or ash or life or death--would be gone. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. In with gunfire and out with smoke. And August wasn't ready to Dolly. Even if surviving wasn't simple, or easy, or fair.. Even if he could never be human. He wanted a chance to matter. He wanted to live. ~ Victoria Schwab

Dolly held the letter tightly and, with a final nod of resolution, started towards her new life, no idea what the future might bring, but determined, suddenly, to meet it. ~ Kate Morton

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

Oh, Dolly is about to get what she's been asking for all these years. The floodgates are open, and nothing will stop me from having her now. Not even her. ~ Alexa Riley

I'm short and I have a big appetite. I can't do nothing just a little. It's the same with anything I do. It's very hard for me to love a little, have sex a little, to eat a little. I like to do everything, and I like to do it all the way that I want to do it. ~ Dolly Parton

'Jolene' has been very popular all of these years, even overseas. ~ Dolly Parton

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

Every day I pray about all I do. ~ Dolly Parton

I'm not your Dolly anymore ~ M.K. Williams

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that. ~ Dolly Parton

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year. ~ Dolly Parton

Storms make trees take deeper roots. ~ Dolly Parton

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff. ~ Dolly Parton

I'll be wearing my high heels, even if I'm up to my knees in mud ~ Dolly Parton

If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not. ~ Dolly Parton

Moving heavy objects allowed me to feel manly in the eyes of other men. With the women it didn't matter, but I enjoyed subtly intimidating the guys with bad backs who thought they were helping out by telling us how to pack the truck. The thinking was that because we were furniture movers, we obviously weren't too bright. In addition to being strong and stupid, we were also thought of as dangerous. It might have been an old story to Patrick and the others, but I got a kick out of being mistaken as volatile. All I had to do was throw down my dolly with a little extra force, and a bossy customer would say, Let's just all calm down and try to work this out. ~ David Sedaris

If you have ever felt slightly nauseous walking through an aged care facility, puckered your face against a smell, observed a grown woman clutching a dolly with desperation, felt a flood of melancholy as death fills your view – then you are in a perfect position to be a supportive psychotherapist for those whose lives are peppered with this everyday. ~ Felicity Chapman

I often get myself in love trouble because I'm so passionate; I love so much and so deep. ~ Dolly Parton

I look like a woman, but I think like a man. ~ Dolly Parton

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves. ~ Dolly Parton

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost. ~ Dolly Parton

I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby. ~ Henny Youngman

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out. ~ Dolly Parton

I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road. ~ Dolly Parton

His colleague Richard Feynman wanted to call these new basic particles partons16, as in Dolly, but was over-ruled. Instead they became known as quarks. ~ Bill Bryson

Straight away he raced, with Dolly, panting and frothing, one leap behind; nor could she gain on him, so great was his terror, nor could he leave her, so great was her madness. ~ Jack London

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language. ~ Loretta Lynn

A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy. ~ Dolly Parton

I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it. ~ Dolly Parton

In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder. ~ Roger Ebert

This is really bad to admit but, you know, when you put your name in Google to see how many credits it's got by your name or something. So you put in 'Dolly Wells' and suddenly it goes 'Dolly Wells Feet' or something. ~ Dolly Wells

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is. ~ Dolly Parton

A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing. ~ Dolly Parton

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. ~ Dolly Parton

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. ~ Dolly Parton

I have surrounded myself with very smart people. ~ Dolly Parton

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. ~ Dolly Parton

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people. ~ Dolly Parton

[On why she doesn't exercise:] If I tried to jog with these boobs, I'd end up with two black eyes. ~ Dolly Parton

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems. ~ Dolly Parton