Top 450 Dolly Parton Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “All these fine Christian-type people that seem to think they know what God wants for all of us, that’s certainly more of a sin then anything they would claim about us. To judge people is one of the greatest sins.”

— Dolly Parton

152. “I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.”

— Dolly Parton

153. “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

154. “It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.”

— Dolly Parton

155. “I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn’t let me have children so everybody’s children could be mine. That’s kind of how I’m looking at it.”

— Dolly Parton

156. “Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul.”

— Dolly Parton

157. “I’ve always believed in my talent. And I’ve always had more guts than talent.”

— Dolly Parton

158. “I look like a woman, but I think like a man.”

— Dolly Parton

159. “My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.”

— Dolly Parton

160. “Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.”

— Dolly Parton

161. “Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I’d go through hell to make him mine.”

— Dolly Parton

162. “Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.”

— Dolly Parton

163. “I’m old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I’d tell them where to put it.”

— Dolly Parton

164. “If I hadn’t been a woman, I’d have been a drag queen.”

— Dolly Parton

165. “A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.”

— Dolly Parton

166. “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

167. “Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.”

— Dolly Parton

168. “The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me out of the Smokey Mountains.”

— Dolly Parton

169. “After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.”

— Dolly Parton

170. “It’s almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.”

— Dolly Parton

171. “Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.”

— Dolly Parton

172. “Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods. But we are idols and we’re all gods, so to speak, and I think that celebrities should acknowledge their responsibility, because we are in a position to help.”

— Dolly Parton

173. “I always think of myself as a working girl.”

— Dolly Parton

174. “If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.”

— Dolly Parton

175. “Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another’s sake.”

— Dolly Parton

176. “I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way.”

— Dolly Parton

177. “God and I have a great relationship but we both see other people.”

— Dolly Parton

178. “Sometimes when I’m under pressure, if I think somebody is expecting stuff from me, I’ll do better than if I was just left on my own. I can sit down – I’m a skilled writer, I’ve been doing it all my life – and I can get down to it.”

— Dolly Parton

179. “Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.”

— Dolly Parton

180. “I’m in showbiz. I look at my boobs like they’re show horses or show dogs. You’ve got to keep them groomed.”

— Dolly Parton

181. “There’s no such thing as free love. Have you seen the price of Viagra?”

— Dolly Parton

182. “I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.”

— Dolly Parton

183. “Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.”

— Dolly Parton

184. “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

185. “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

186. “Home is anywhere I hang my hair.”

— Dolly Parton

187. “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

188. “Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.”

— Dolly Parton

189. “I know it’s corny – but I love ‘Jingle Bells!’”

— Dolly Parton

190. “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

191. “A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.”

— Dolly Parton

192. “I wouldn’t wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I’ve come to know her that way, too.”

— Dolly Parton

193. “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

194. “I don’t want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.”

— Dolly Parton

195. “Those people who wake up and they’re just beautiful, they’re just born that way. Well that ain’t me. I gotta work for everything I’ve got.”

— Dolly Parton

196. “You don’t even have to believe in anything to be good to people. You should just know you should be a good human being.”

— Dolly Parton

197. “People say you shouldn’t have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that’s a lot of crock. If God didn’t want plastic surgeons, he wouldn’t have given them hands to work with.”

— Dolly Parton

198. “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

199. “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

200. “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