Dolly Parton Quotes - Page 6

I love bald men. Just because you've lost your fuzz don't mean you ain't a peach.

It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know.

Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got.

I can't do nothing just a little.

Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

Love is only as strong as your weakest moment.

I love the accomplishments and the awards that I've received through the years. But I've always worked more for the rewards than the awards. I've always counted my blessings before I've counted my money. I'm glad that new dreams come to me everyday.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.

I'm just a simple country girl.

We're all God's children.

I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle blooms. It's a feeling of freedom, so close to God and nature.

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

Goodbye- please don't cry/we both know that I'm not what you need. But I will always love you.

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

Smile, it increases you face value.

People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'

I do wear wigs. ... I sometimes make the joke about me standing on a hilltop with my hair blowing in the wind - and me too proud to run after it.

A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.