Top 450 Dolly Parton Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

253. “I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.”

— Dolly Parton

254. “I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.”

— Dolly Parton

255. “I don’t keep up with a lot of trends. I’ve never been a fashion horse. I’m so busy writing my songs, trying to maintain my business, and all the new things that come along. I stay working all the time.”

— Dolly Parton

256. “George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.”

— Dolly Parton

257. “All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.”

— Dolly Parton

258. “My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.”

— Dolly Parton

259. “My favorite movies of all times is ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ and I love ‘Gone With the Wind.’ I’d love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.”

— Dolly Parton

260. “As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!”

— Dolly Parton

261. “When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.”

— Dolly Parton

262. “I’ve always wanted to be a star. I’ve always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.”

— Dolly Parton

263. “When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I’ve done it all.”

— Dolly Parton

264. “I’m so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.”

— Dolly Parton

265. “I modelled my looks on the town tramp.”

— Dolly Parton

266. “My fat never made me less money.”

— Dolly Parton

267. “I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.”

— Dolly Parton

268. “I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I’m in public, at Dollywood. People say, ‘How many wigs do you have?’ And I say, ‘Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.’”

— Dolly Parton

269. “Well, my smile’s pretty hard to miss, considering I’m a gal who likes her lipstick-the redder the better.”

— Dolly Parton

270. “You’ll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what’s a few more strangers in a life of nothing else.”

— Dolly Parton

271. “If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they’re owed, but I don’t expect them to be paid more than they earn.”

— Dolly Parton

272. “I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.”

— Dolly Parton

273. “Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.”

— Dolly Parton

274. “People are always asking me in interviews, ‘What do you think of foreign affairs?’ I just say, ‘I’ve had a few.’”

— Dolly Parton

275. “I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, ‘Dang, she looks good for her age!’”

— Dolly Parton

276. “I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.”

— Dolly Parton

277. “I’m a showgirl, as you can tell. I’m ever ready.”

— Dolly Parton

278. “I’ll be wearing my high heels, even if I’m up to my knees in mud.”

— Dolly Parton

279. “I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.”

— Dolly Parton

280. “I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.”

— Dolly Parton

281. “For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.”

— Dolly Parton

282. “I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.”

— Dolly Parton

283. “I love the accomplishments and the awards that I’ve received through the years. But I’ve always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I’ve always counted my blessings before I’ve counted my money. I’m glad that new dreams come to me everyday.”

— Dolly Parton

284. “I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.”

— Dolly Parton

285. “I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.”

— Dolly Parton

286. “My husband calls me ‘catfish.’ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.”

— Dolly Parton

287. “A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.”

— Dolly Parton

288. “I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.”

— Dolly Parton

289. “The bible says, ‘All things are possible.’ I believe that.”

— Dolly Parton

290. “Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.”

— Dolly Parton

291. “It’s when you treat people like freaks that you become one yourself.”

— Dolly Parton

292. “When I do listen to music, I’m more prone to listen to the people I’ve always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.”

— Dolly Parton

293. “Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I’ve written, are stories driven by characters.”

— Dolly Parton

294. “My lips, I’ve used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.”

— Dolly Parton

295. “We’re afraid to live, because we’re afraid of dying.”

— Dolly Parton

296. “I can’t do nothing just a little.”

— Dolly Parton

297. “I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.”

— Dolly Parton

298. “You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.”

— Dolly Parton

299. “You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.”

— Dolly Parton

300. “Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.”

— Dolly Parton