Top 450 Dolly Parton Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

304. “I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.”

— Dolly Parton

305. “I’m just a person; I like to experience whatever the feeling is and whatever I’m going through.”

— Dolly Parton

306. “I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it’s a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.”

— Dolly Parton

307. “I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.”

— Dolly Parton

308. “Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.”

— Dolly Parton

309. “I have always been a firm believer in working hard for what is right and for making your own breaks if you want things to change.”

— Dolly Parton

310. “I know my hair is out of the ’60’s, my clothes are ’50’s and the shoes I wear are from the ’40’s. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.”

— Dolly Parton

311. “I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn’t even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.”

— Dolly Parton

312. “Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.”

— Dolly Parton

313. “I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I’m just like a kid, like I’ve found a new toy.”

— Dolly Parton

314. “I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.”

— Dolly Parton

315. “You never know what’s going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don’t know how you’re going to be thought of or seen.”

— Dolly Parton

316. “I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.”

— Dolly Parton

317. “God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.”

— Dolly Parton

318. “I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.”

— Dolly Parton

319. “I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.”

— Dolly Parton

320. “I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.”

— Dolly Parton

321. “I have a good attitude. And I was born with a happy heart. I’m always looking for things to be better.”

— Dolly Parton

322. “I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made ’em up myself.”

— Dolly Parton

323. “I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.”

— Dolly Parton

324. “I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.”

— Dolly Parton

325. “I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.”

— Dolly Parton

326. “People get a kick out of my stupidity.”

— Dolly Parton

327. “Some guys look better as they get older.”

— Dolly Parton

328. “I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.”

— Dolly Parton

329. “I’ve never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.”

— Dolly Parton

330. “I’m like a cartoon! I’ll look this way when I’m eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I’ll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out!”

— Dolly Parton

331. “I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.”

— Dolly Parton

332. “I don’t think I’m a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That’s how I do the acting.”

— Dolly Parton

333. “My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we’d look at the pictures.”

— Dolly Parton

334. “I don’t have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.”

— Dolly Parton

335. “Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‘Jolene’ was a big hit.”

— Dolly Parton

336. “I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.”

— Dolly Parton

337. “I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I’m so fair.”

— Dolly Parton

338. “Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.”

— Dolly Parton

339. “I’ve been to those places where it’s ‘poor, pitiful me.’”

— Dolly Parton

340. “The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.”

— Dolly Parton

341. “I’ll oil wells love you. I’ll oil wells care. I’ll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.”

— Dolly Parton

342. “I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.”

— Dolly Parton

343. “If you try to follow everyone else and be like everyone else, before you know it you’re gone. You’re not going to find yourself again; you’ll just be a version of what you might have hoped to have been.”

— Dolly Parton

344. “Is forever longer than always?”

— Dolly Parton

345. “I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.”

— Dolly Parton

346. “I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.”

— Dolly Parton

347. “I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.”

— Dolly Parton

348. “I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ’em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.”

— Dolly Parton

349. “If I can hold God’s attention, I can hold the world’s...”

— Dolly Parton

350. “I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.”

— Dolly Parton