Top 450 Dolly Parton Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it’s important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.”

— Dolly Parton

102. “I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.”

— Dolly Parton

103. “If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I’d have all the treasures my pockets could hold.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

105. “Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.”

— Dolly Parton

106. “I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.”

— Dolly Parton

107. “I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.”

— Dolly Parton

108. “Truth is, I wouldn’t know a gigabyte from a snakebite.”

— Dolly Parton

109. “I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.”

— Dolly Parton

110. “Having a big gay following, I get hate mail and threats. Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can’t be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be happy.”

— Dolly Parton

111. “I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I’m just drawn to them. They’re like magic to me. And they’re drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.”

— Dolly Parton

112. “I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.”

— Dolly Parton

113. “Life is a song to me.”

— Dolly Parton

114. “I think that I’m perfect.”

— Dolly Parton

115. “There’s a scripture that says, ‘A merry heart doeth good like medicine.’ I think that’s true, too.”

— Dolly Parton

116. “We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.”

— Dolly Parton

117. “Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.”

— Dolly Parton

118. “If I had to give up performing, it wouldn’t bother me too much. But I couldn’t live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn’t even tell my husband.”

— Dolly Parton

119. “I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.”

— Dolly Parton

120. “I love Velveeta cheese.”

— Dolly Parton

121. “I have surrounded myself with very smart people.”

— Dolly Parton

122. “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.”

— Dolly Parton

123. “I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.”

— Dolly Parton

124. “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

125. “My husband says I look like a Q-tip.”

— Dolly Parton

126. “I’ve never been a feminist.”

— Dolly Parton

127. “I listen to my old records and I think, ‘How did I ever get on the radio?’”

— Dolly Parton

128. “I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.”

— Dolly Parton

129. “I was always a junk food person, still am.”

— Dolly Parton

130. “Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.”

— Dolly Parton

131. “It’s a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I’d be a drag queen.”

— Dolly Parton

132. “My boobs are fake, my hair’s fake but what is real is my voice and my heart.”

— Dolly Parton

133. “I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.”

— Dolly Parton

134. “Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.”

— Dolly Parton

135. “Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to.”

— Dolly Parton

136. “I hope you’re never happy with anybody but me, and every face you look into, I hope you’re haunted by me. Yes, I’m possessive and jealous, at least I speak honestly.”

— Dolly Parton

137. “They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you’re just a step on the boss man’s ladder.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

139. “I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.”

— Dolly Parton

140. “I may look fake but I’m real where it counts.”

— Dolly Parton

141. “Energy begets energy.”

— Dolly Parton

142. “I count my blessings far more than I count my money.”

— Dolly Parton

143. “We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.”

— Dolly Parton

144. “The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.”

— Dolly Parton

145. “You can bet there’s something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.”

— Dolly Parton

146. “You’re no Elvis Presley, I’m no Marilyn Monroe, but I do think you’re sexy, just thought I’d tell you so.”

— Dolly Parton

147. “First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.”

— Dolly Parton

148. “Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.”

— Dolly Parton

149. “Understanding isn’t learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain’t learned from hate.”

— Dolly Parton

150. “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.”

— Dolly Parton