Top 450 Dolly Parton Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.”

— Dolly Parton

102. “I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.”

— Dolly Parton

103. “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

104. “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

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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

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

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

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

— Dolly Parton

111. “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

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

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113. “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

114. “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

115. “Life is a song to me.”

— Dolly Parton

116. “I think that I’m perfect.”

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

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

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

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120. “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

121. “I love Velveeta cheese.”

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122. “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.”

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

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124. “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

125. “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

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

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127. “I’ve never been a feminist.”

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

— Dolly Parton

129. “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

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

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131. “I don’t like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I’m kind of a hands-on type of person.”

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

— Dolly Parton

133. “When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.”

— Dolly Parton

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

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135. “If people think I’m a dumb blonde, because of the way I look, then they’re dumber than they think I am. If people think I’m not very deep because of my wigs and outfits, then they’re not very deep.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

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142. “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.”

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

— Dolly Parton

144. “Energy begets energy.”

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

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

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

— Dolly Parton

148. “I always loved books. I don’t remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.”

— Dolly Parton

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

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150. “The only way I’d be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.”

— Dolly Parton