Dolly Parton Quotes
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401. “I’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.”

— Dolly Parton

402. “I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.”

— Dolly Parton

403. “There are some loony people in this world!”

— Dolly Parton

404. “I prefer my music. I’m more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.”

— Dolly Parton

405. “I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.”

— Dolly Parton

406. “When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.”

— Dolly Parton

407. “I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.”

— Dolly Parton

408. “I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.”

— Dolly Parton

409. “I was very honored to get to be part of ‘American Idol.’”

— Dolly Parton

410. “I always loved that old song ‘Banks of the Ohio’ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.”

— Dolly Parton

411. “I’m easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.”

— Dolly Parton

412. “I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.”

— Dolly Parton

413. “You don’t need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.”

— Dolly Parton

414. “A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.”

— Dolly Parton

415. “I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it’s very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.”

— Dolly Parton

416. “If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Dolly Parton

418. “My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.”

— Dolly Parton

419. “Sevier County is a great area.”

— Dolly Parton

420. “I just always knew I was going to be a star. I was always going to be rich so I could buy things for Mommy and Daddy, so that I could buy them a big house and we could have things.”

— Dolly Parton

421. “I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn’t it time someone helped the homely?”

— Dolly Parton

422. “All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.”

— Dolly Parton

423. “So here I was trying to get married to a man who hadn’t really asked me, with a boss that didn’t want me to and a town that wouldn’t let me do it when I wanted. Yet I knew in my heart it was right.”

— Dolly Parton

424. “My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn’t have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.”

— Dolly Parton

425. “My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.”

— Dolly Parton

426. “I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.”

— Dolly Parton

427. “I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.”

— Dolly Parton

428. “People ask me, “Do you ever run out of patience? Are you ever rude to people?” Sometimes I am. I hate when it happens, but it seems like some people just try to get on your nerves. There are times when I feel like saying something like, “Why don’t you get out of my face, you ugly woman. And take those bratty kids with you!” But at times like that I usually get all flustered. I get confused and say stupid stuff like, “Kiss my ass, that’s what you are. And don’t think I can’t do it!”

— Dolly Parton

429. “I write what I write, say what I say, ’cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I’d rather be an honest person than a good liar.”

— Dolly Parton

430. “I’ve often said I don’t lose my temper as much as use it. I don’t do either unless I have to because I love peace and harmony, but when you step in my territory, I will call you on it.”

— Dolly Parton

431. “I do write a lot of children’s songs, and I’m going to do a children’s television show, which also means I’ll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.”

— Dolly Parton

432. “I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.”

— Dolly Parton

433. “There’s a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.”

— Dolly Parton

434. “I think of country radio like a great lover: you were nice to me, you gave me a lot of cool stuff, and then you dumped my ass for another woman.”

— Dolly Parton

435. “When I discovered that there was actually a thing called a push-up bra, that, to me, had to be equal of the day Einstein figured out that relativity thing.”

— Dolly Parton