Top 450 Dolly Parton Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

102. “We can’t just hope for a brighter day, we have to work for a brighter day. Love too often gets buried in a world of hurt and fear. And we have to work to dig it out so we can share it with our family, our friends, and our neighbors.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

106. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

108. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

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

— Dolly Parton

113. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

116. “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

117. “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

118. “Life is a song to me.”

— Dolly Parton

119. “I think that I’m perfect.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

123. “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

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124. “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

125. “I love Velveeta cheese.”

— Dolly Parton

126. “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

127. “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

128. “I’ve never been a feminist.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

130. “I like to think I’ve been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I’m just going about my work and doing what I do best. I’m a very professional ‘Me.’”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

132. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

134. “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.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

138. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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140. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

146. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

148. “Energy begets energy.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton