Top 450 Dolly Parton Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

153. “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

154. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

157. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

159. “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

160. “They say somebody’s ‘street smart.’ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

162. “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

163. “Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

166. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

168. “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

169. “I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I re-read passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world.”

— Dolly Parton

170. “I’m not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there’s a little magic in the fact that I’m so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.”

— Dolly Parton

171. “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

172. “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

173. “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

174. “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

175. “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

176. “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

177. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

179. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

181. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

186. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

188. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

190. “If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can’t afford to go to school.”

— Dolly Parton

191. “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

192. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

194. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

196. “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

197. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

199. “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

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

— Dolly Parton