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.
— Dolly Parton
Everybody has a purpose.
I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family.
'Jolene' has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.
As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!
When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'
A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.
My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.
My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.
Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.
I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.
A lot of people think I'm a comedian.
I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.
I look like a woman, but I think like a man.
My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.
My lips, I've used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.
I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.
People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.
Life is a song to me.
I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.
I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.
Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.
There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.
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 walk tall; I got a tall attitude.
I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.
When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.
I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'
I love being active.
I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.
I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'
I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.
I'm a showgirl, as you can tell. I'm ever ready.
I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.
Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.
There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.
When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.
Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.
I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.
I always loved that old song 'Banks of the Ohio' - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.
Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.
My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.
I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
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!
I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'
I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.
Someone once asked me, 'How long does it take to do your hair.' I said, 'I don't know, I'm never there.'
All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.
I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.
