Top 450 Dolly Parton Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I don’t want to throw rice. I want to throw rocks.”

— Dolly Parton

202. “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

203. “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

204. “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

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

209. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

211. “Money ain’t everything.”

— Dolly Parton

212. “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

213. “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

214. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

224. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

226. “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

227. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

233. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

235. “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

236. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

238. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

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

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

— Dolly Parton

246. “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

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

— 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 have been asked to pose for Penthouse on my hundredth birthday. Everybody is going to be sorry.”

— 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