Top 450 Dolly Parton Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “It doesn’t bother me when someone calls me a ‘dumb blonde.’ I’m neither dumb or blonde.”

— Dolly Parton

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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

257. “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

258. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

261. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

263. “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

264. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

268. “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

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. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

272. “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

273. “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

274. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

281. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

283. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

287. “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

288. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

290. “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

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

299. “I often get myself in love trouble because I’m so passionate; I love so much and so deep.”

— Dolly Parton

300. “I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.”

— Dolly Parton