Top 450 Dolly Parton Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.”

— Dolly Parton

52. “I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts...”

— Dolly Parton

53. “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

54. “I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different.”

— Dolly Parton

55. “A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.”

— Dolly Parton

56. “There’s a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.”

— Dolly Parton

57. “Smile, it enhances your face value.”

— Dolly Parton

58. “I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.”

— Dolly Parton

59. “I’m the kind of person who would rather rock in my rocking chair when I’m old and regret a few things that I did than to sit there and regret that I never tried...”

— Dolly Parton

60. “I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.”

— Dolly Parton

61. “God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.”

— Dolly Parton

62. “Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I’m always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.”

— Dolly Parton

63. “We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.”

— Dolly Parton

64. “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

65. “I always wanted to be loved.”

— Dolly Parton

66. “I just don’t feel like I have to explain myself.”

— Dolly Parton

67. “I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don’t have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.”

— Dolly Parton

68. “Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?”

— Dolly Parton

69. “I’m no angel if that’s what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.”

— Dolly Parton

70. “People say I look so happy – and I say, ‘That’s the Botox.’”

— Dolly Parton

71. “I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that’s my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside.”

— Dolly Parton

72. “Everybody has a purpose.”

— Dolly Parton

73. “The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.”

— Dolly Parton

74. “Islands in the streams, that is what we are.”

— Dolly Parton

75. “I never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that. I never wanted to change, I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well.”

— Dolly Parton

76. “Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.”

— Dolly Parton

77. “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

78. “If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.”

— Dolly Parton

79. “When I have sex with my husband, I fantasize I am with a petite, hot young woman.”

— Dolly Parton

80. “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.”

— Dolly Parton

81. “If I have one more facelift I’ll have a beard!”

— Dolly Parton

82. “When I’m feeling a little low, I put on my favorite high heels to stand a little taller.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

84. “I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.”

— Dolly Parton

85. “What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I’m there with them.”

— Dolly Parton

86. “I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.”

— Dolly Parton

87. “I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.”

— Dolly Parton

88. “People think I’m as shallow and superficial as I look, and it’s a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.”

— Dolly Parton

89. “I’ll never graduate from collagen.”

— Dolly Parton

90. “I don’t know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.”

— Dolly Parton

91. “When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.”

— Dolly Parton

92. “I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.”

— Dolly Parton

93. “I just don’t have time to get old!”

— Dolly Parton

94. “I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.”

— Dolly Parton

95. “You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.”

— Dolly Parton

96. “If there’s something you know and there’s something you feel, but you can’t quite express it, you will hear it somewhere. And you don’t have to worry, because someone will get it sung out.”

— Dolly Parton

97. “God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.”

— Dolly Parton

98. “I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

100. “I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.”

— Dolly Parton