It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.
Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.
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 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.
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.
I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.
I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.
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.
I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.
I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.
I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.
I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.
I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.
I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.
I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.
Having a big gay following, I get hate mail and threats. Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can't be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be happy.
For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.
Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
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.
I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.
My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.
When I got somethin' to say, I'll say it.
I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.
Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.
I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.
