Top 450 Dolly Parton Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

209. “Everything is nothing when you got no one.”

— Dolly Parton

210. “I’m a proud person. I’m not vain. I look at it like it is. If you’ve got the money and you’re going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.”

— Dolly Parton

211. “I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb – and I’m not blonde either.”

— Dolly Parton

212. “There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.”

— Dolly Parton

213. “After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I’ve done that in my past, and I’d do it again.”

— Dolly Parton

214. “Money ain’t everything.”

— Dolly Parton

215. “I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.”

— Dolly Parton

216. “My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.”

— Dolly Parton

217. “If there’s a heaven, I hope to hell I go!”

— Dolly Parton

218. “When its family, you tolerate what you’d kill others for.”

— Dolly Parton

219. “My mistakes are no worse than yours.”

— Dolly Parton

220. “I’m comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it’s stretched. Ha ha.”

— Dolly Parton

221. “I’m in the public eye, so I don’t care who knows what I get done. If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I get it sucked, tucked, or plucked.”

— Dolly Parton

222. “I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.”

— Dolly Parton

223. “I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.”

— Dolly Parton

224. “I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!”

— Dolly Parton

225. “Now I usually try not to give advice. Information, yes, advice, no. But, what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me. Wigs. Tight clothes. Push-up bras.”

— Dolly Parton

226. “All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can’t make me happy if it goes against what I believe.”

— Dolly Parton

227. “I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.”

— Dolly Parton

228. “People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.”

— Dolly Parton

229. “I’m one of those people that if its something to eat I’m going to eat the whole thing, If I’m going to be in love I’m going to love you all the way and if my heart’s broken, it’s just shattered all to pieces.”

— Dolly Parton

230. “People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.”

— Dolly Parton

231. “Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.”

— Dolly Parton

232. “I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.”

— Dolly Parton

233. “Be the alligator girl. Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be. Wear your green cornflakes with pride. Snarl at the crowds, and do your best to make them flinch. Give them a quarter’s worth of wonder.”

— Dolly Parton

234. “That’s the great thing about a sense of humor and a sex drive, you can’t wait to share it with everybody else.”

— Dolly Parton

235. “I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.”

— Dolly Parton

236. “If I hadn’t been a woman, I’d be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I’d be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I’d be like Ru Paul.”

— Dolly Parton

237. “I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‘sexy,’ even before I knew what the word was.”

— Dolly Parton

238. “My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.”

— Dolly Parton

239. “I’ll just wait right here for you cause I know your new love won’t last. I wound easy, but I heal fast.”

— Dolly Parton

240. “I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small and then take them in a little.”

— Dolly Parton

241. “Wondering if God loves us when we’re cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it’s wrong.”

— Dolly Parton

242. “You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!”

— Dolly Parton

243. “I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.”

— Dolly Parton

244. “I feel blessed that I still have the little Dolly in my heart, I’m still the same girl that wants to squeeze every little drop out of life that I can.”

— Dolly Parton

245. “My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.”

— Dolly Parton

246. “A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.”

— Dolly Parton

247. “Many of my friends are gay, male and female. I don’t judge people. I don’t care what people do in their bedrooms and people shouldn’t care what I do in mine.”

— Dolly Parton

248. “My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.”

— Dolly Parton

249. “I still close my eyes and go home – I can always draw from that.”

— Dolly Parton

250. “I compare myself to a good barn. You can have a good barn, and if you paint it, it looks a little better. But if you take the paint off, it’s still a good barn.”

— Dolly Parton