Dolly Parton Quotes - Page 12

I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small and then take them in a little.

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.

I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.

I enjoy the way I look, but it's a joke.

One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.

I'll just wait right here for you cause I know your new love won't last. I wound easy, but I heal fast.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

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.

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

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

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

I've never let a rhinestone go unturned

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

Some of my dreams are so big they would scare you.

I don't trust anyone who does their own hair. I don't think it's natural.

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).

Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul.

I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.

If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?

Being a star just means that you just find your own special place and that you shine where you are. To me that's what being a star means.

I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.

I wake up with new dreams every day...more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

Cause I am strong and I can prove it And I got my dreams to see me through It's just a mountain, I can move it And with faith enough there's nothing I can't do And I can see the light of a clear blue morning And I can see the light of brand new day I can see the light of a clear blue morning And everything's gonna be all right It's gonna be okay [lyrics from "Light of a Clear Blue Morning"]