I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work. Dolly Parton on art
Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good. Dolly Parton on attitude
You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone. Dolly Parton on business
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 on business
I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with. Dolly Parton on business
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 on car
I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with. Dolly Parton on dad
I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say. Dolly Parton on dreams
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 on family
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order. Dolly Parton on food
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 on food
I was always a junk food person, still am. Dolly Parton on food
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen. Dolly Parton on good
I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody. Dolly Parton on good
The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue. Dolly Parton on home
I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that. Dolly Parton on home
The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue. Dolly Parton on hope
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. Dolly Parton on intelligence
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order. Dolly Parton on men
It costs a lot of money to look this cheap. Dolly Parton on money