Quotes By Dolly Parton

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

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.

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.

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.

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

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.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I think that I'm perfect.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

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

I've been very fortunate.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

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

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

I can't do nothing just a little.